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Life in a time of pestilence : the great Castilian plague of 1596-1601
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ISBN: 9781108498203 1108498205 9781108632720 9781108735414 1108666019 1108664792 1108632726 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the disease killed some 500,000 people in Castile, around 10 percent of the population. Plague is traditionally understood to have triggered chaos and madness. By contrast, Ruth Mackay focuses on the sites of everyday life, exploring how beliefs, practices, laws, and relationships endured even under the onslaught of disease. She takes an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of plague, and explores how the epidemic was understood and managed by everyday people. Offering a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic history of Spain, this original and engaging book demonstrates how, even in the midst of chaos, life carried on.


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Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800
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ISBN: 9781107044791 1107044790 9781107622791 1107622794 9781107045309 113991491X 1139905201 1139899309 1139907131 1139922726 1139910981 1107045304 1139903233 1139918834 9781139922722 9781139907132 9781139910989 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Physical, sensory, and mental impairments can influence an individual's status in society as much as the more familiar categories of gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. This was especially true of the early modern Arab Ottoman world, where being judged able or disabled impacted every aspect of a person's life, including performance of religious ritual, marriage, job opportunities, and the ability to buy and sell property. Sara Scalenghe's book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa, and the first to examine disability in the non-Western world before the nineteenth century. Unlike previous scholarly works that examine disability as discussed in religious texts such as the Qur'an and the Hadith, this study focuses on representations and classifications of disability and impairment across a wide range of biographical, legal, medical, and divinatory primary sources.

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