Some Plague Tractates (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries)

Regulations introduced in Scottish cities during the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries to prevent the spread of the plague.

The early out breaks of the plague in Europe in 550 to 560 and again in 664 do not seem to have reached or had a great effect on Scotland. During the first part of the 14 Century, the plague, then referred to as the Black Death or Bubonic Plague, started in the East and slowly moved westwards. Exactly how the infection made the journey into Europe is not known. Probably there were a number of r...

Fourteenth-century England, medical ethics, and the plague.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and the threat of bioterror attacks have raised questions about the role of the physician in response to epidemics. Modern medical ethics, with its precepts of beneficence, nonmaleficence, and respect for patient autonomy, focuses almost exclusively on the relationship between the docto...

factors and consequences of the spread of the black death (great plague of the middle ages) in iran (eighth and ninth century ah / fourteenth and fifteenth century ad)

in the world history, from ancient times up to now, the plague has been followed by heavy casualties on human societies and social order. one of the deadliest plagues is the great plague of the middle ages, or so-called black death. this plague, in the eighth and ninth ah (fourteenth and fifteenth century ad) swept over some large areas of asia, especially the middle east, as well as europe, an...

Practitioners and saints: medical men in canonization processes in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.

This article shows that recourse to expert medical judgement for authenticating miracles has medieval roots which lead to the thirteenth century. It provides a survey of those cases in the printed versions of canonization processes from c. 1200 to c. 1500 where medical men actively appeared as witnesses. It shows how, from the second half of the thirteenth century, many canonization processes (...

The Guitar and its Performance from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries