Most historians agree that quarantine practices in the Mediterranean Sea played a pivotal role in the disappearance of plague from Western Europe. Although maritime quarantine originated in the Middle Ages, its importance increased during the seventeenth and eighteenth century when centralising states, guided by ‘populationist’ ideas of statecraft doctrines like mercantilism, began to develop and enforce isolation periods more elaborately. While extensive scholarship has explored maritime quarantine in Mediterranean port cities, little attention has been paid to the harbours of northwestern Europe. This study aims to fill this gap by examining maritime quarantine practices in the Austrian Netherlands during the eighteenth century. I survey ...
In recent decades, the issue of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases has become an increasin...
L’Anno del Nostro Signore mille sette cento quaranta tre was not a good year. The dreadful plague h...
[EN] From the 1610s onwards the economic and political evolution of the Mediterranean strongly depen...
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defe...
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defe...
The article examines the relationship between quarantine practices and Western European medical noti...
The article examines the relationship between quarantine practices and Western European medical noti...
Woven throughout Maltese medical history is the constant struggle against the possibility of an inva...
The practice of quarantine, as we know it, began during the 14th century in an effort to protect coa...
The isolation and separation of infected individuals in response to epidemics has persevered through...
After the establishment of the first quarantine station in the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrov...
After the establishment of the first quarantine station in the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrov...
International audienceFrom the 15th century, in Europe, quarantines participated in the fundation of...
International audienceFrom the 15th century, in Europe, quarantines participated in the fundation of...
In recent decades, the issue of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases has become an increasin...
In recent decades, the issue of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases has become an increasin...
L’Anno del Nostro Signore mille sette cento quaranta tre was not a good year. The dreadful plague h...
[EN] From the 1610s onwards the economic and political evolution of the Mediterranean strongly depen...
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defe...
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defe...
The article examines the relationship between quarantine practices and Western European medical noti...
The article examines the relationship between quarantine practices and Western European medical noti...
Woven throughout Maltese medical history is the constant struggle against the possibility of an inva...
The practice of quarantine, as we know it, began during the 14th century in an effort to protect coa...
The isolation and separation of infected individuals in response to epidemics has persevered through...
After the establishment of the first quarantine station in the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrov...
After the establishment of the first quarantine station in the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrov...
International audienceFrom the 15th century, in Europe, quarantines participated in the fundation of...
International audienceFrom the 15th century, in Europe, quarantines participated in the fundation of...
In recent decades, the issue of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases has become an increasin...
In recent decades, the issue of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases has become an increasin...
L’Anno del Nostro Signore mille sette cento quaranta tre was not a good year. The dreadful plague h...
[EN] From the 1610s onwards the economic and political evolution of the Mediterranean strongly depen...