Renaissance Society of America
Plagues and Peoples: Health Crises and Cultural Rebirth in Early Modern Worlds I+II
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago (USA)
Panel organized by Nils Weber (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut) and Julianne Werlin (Duke University)
Eleanor Crook: Santa Medicina (detail), Science Museum London, 2019.
Plagues and Peoples: Health Crises and Cultural Rebirth in Early Modern Worlds I
Chair: Julianne Werlin (Duke University)
8:30 AM
Plague and Prevention: The System of Quarantine Centres in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Marina Inì (University of Cambridge)
8:50 AM
Pomanders and Plagues: The Culture of Perfume in Early Modern Italy
Ann Glasscock (Taft Museum of Art)
9:10 AM
Plague Amulets: New Perspectives on the Material Culture of Pandemic Societies
Nils Weber (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
BREAK
Plagues and Peoples: Health Crises and Cultural Rebirth in Early Modern Worlds II
Chair: Mandy Richter (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
10:30 AM
Beaked, Robed, and Goggled: The Enduring Myth of the Seventeenth-Century European Plague Doctor
Jodie Austin (Menlo College)
10:50 AM
Vedute without Viewers: The Plague in Rome in Domenico Castelli’s Drawings (1656-57)
Fabio Gigone (Centre for Privacy Studies Copenhagen)
11:10 AM
Pathos and Elation: Plague Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
Paulina León (University of Chicago)
22 marzo 2024
Venue
22 March 2024, 8:30 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Logan Room – Third Floor
17 E Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
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Avviso
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