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Images of plague and pestilence : iconography and iconology
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Christine M. Boeckl
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781935503453, 1935503456, 9780271091181, 0271091185, 0943549728, 094354985X, 9780943549859
- OCLC
- ocn694146983
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Medical Aspects of Bubonic Plague and Yersinia pestis Infections -- 2: Literary Sources of Plague Iconography -- 3: Visual Sources of Plague Iconography -- 4: The Black Death and Its Immediate Aftermath (1347�1500) -- 5: The Sixteenth-Century Renaissance (1500�1600) -- 6: The Tridentine World: Plague Paintings as Implementations of Catholic Reforms (1600�1775) -- 7: Revival of Plague Themes and Modern Reverberations (1776�1990s) -- 8: Plague Imagery, Past and Future
- AppendixNotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Scripture References