Title:
In the time of the plague
Images of societies on the Greek peninsula, 14th-19th centuries

Subject:
History & society

Author:
Kostas P. Kostis

Editions:
University of Crete Publications

Publication Date:
2020

Language:
Greek

Pages: 464

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A recap of the scientific knowledge about the plague from centuries-old sources and, mainly,  an overview of the worldviews and the stances of people who lived in the past regarding disease, prevention and cure. A fascinating attempt to decode an impressive number of chronicles, medical treatises, memoires and historical texts. Eventually, there is nothing to justify condescension towards the agonies in the past, since our contemporaries are equally defenseless before the pandemics.