Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics by M. Healy

Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics

M. Healy

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How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Ranging from the Reformation...

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