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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Agresta, Abigail

Titel

From Purification to Protection: Plague Response in Late Medieval Valencia

Ist Teil von

• Speculum, 2020-04, Vol.95 (2), p.371-395

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: The University of Chicago Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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University of Chicago Press Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On the morning of 6 July 1395, the city council of Valencia met in the council chamber. Plague had been in the city since March, and despite the council's best efforts, the death toll continued to rise. This morning, the councilmen authorized several new measures to combat the epidemic. They organized charitable donations "to placate divine anger," and a procession to the chapel of Our Lady of Mercy to "beseech divine mercy for the said plague." Immediately thereafter, they authorized funds for the removal of "dead dogs, cats, rats, and other dead things that people throw in the streets and squares, and which in these times of summer and epidemic give great corruption to the city." This article contends that in Valencia, municipal religious responses to plague according to the same logic as those more frequently associated with public health.