Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth- and seventeenth-century policies were the first steps towards an authoritarian paradigm that would only emerge in full in the eighteenth century. The present article argues that Foucault’s model is too abstracted to function as a tool for the historical examination of specific emergencies, and it proposes an alternative analytical framework. Addressing itself to actual events in early modern Italy, the article reveals that when plague threatened, Florentine and Bolognese health officials projected themselves into a spatio-temporal dimen...
This brief survey article examines the strategies to cope with plague in early modern Italy, often h...
This essay deals with plague and plagues in renaissance and early modern Europe over the longue duré...
A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronte...
Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quaranti...
This article explores the changing regulation and conceptualisation of time during periods of quaran...
If for Fernand Braudel the central event of the Renaissance is represented by the combination of ci...
This dissertation explores the notion of catastrophe in the context of the Great Plague that ravaged...
Ce travail de thèse s'intéresse à l'imaginaire littéraire de la peste après le XVIIIe siècle, soit a...
International audienceHistoriography has almost always emphasized the extreme behaviours of populati...
This article resituates the Panopticon in Foucault’s work, showing how it emerged from research on s...
International audienceThe lancet, the quill and the chaperone : medical people's civic action in tim...
Cette recherche porte sur la vie ordinaire des Marseillais et Marseillaises pendant et juste après l...
This article offers a reflection on the plague of the XVII century that affected the island of Cerde...
This article examines the last great epidemic of plague to affect Tuscany, in 1630-31. The aim is re...
Albert Camus\u27s 1947 novel La Peste and 1948 drama L\u27État de Siège, allegories of totalitarian ...
This brief survey article examines the strategies to cope with plague in early modern Italy, often h...
This essay deals with plague and plagues in renaissance and early modern Europe over the longue duré...
A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronte...
Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quaranti...
This article explores the changing regulation and conceptualisation of time during periods of quaran...
If for Fernand Braudel the central event of the Renaissance is represented by the combination of ci...
This dissertation explores the notion of catastrophe in the context of the Great Plague that ravaged...
Ce travail de thèse s'intéresse à l'imaginaire littéraire de la peste après le XVIIIe siècle, soit a...
International audienceHistoriography has almost always emphasized the extreme behaviours of populati...
This article resituates the Panopticon in Foucault’s work, showing how it emerged from research on s...
International audienceThe lancet, the quill and the chaperone : medical people's civic action in tim...
Cette recherche porte sur la vie ordinaire des Marseillais et Marseillaises pendant et juste après l...
This article offers a reflection on the plague of the XVII century that affected the island of Cerde...
This article examines the last great epidemic of plague to affect Tuscany, in 1630-31. The aim is re...
Albert Camus\u27s 1947 novel La Peste and 1948 drama L\u27État de Siège, allegories of totalitarian ...
This brief survey article examines the strategies to cope with plague in early modern Italy, often h...
This essay deals with plague and plagues in renaissance and early modern Europe over the longue duré...
A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronte...