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Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

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Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of how municipal officials and residents worked together to create a public health response to epidemics that protected both individual and communal interests. Similar studies of plague during this period either dramatize the tragic consequences of the epidemic or concentrate on the tough "modern" public health interventions, such as quarantine, surveillance and isolation, and the laxness or strictness of their enforcement. Arguing for a redefinition of "public health" in the early modern era, the study chronicles a more restrained, humane, and balanced response to breakouts in 1582 and 1599-1600 Seville, showing that city officials aimed to protect the population but also to maintain trade and commerce in order to prevent the potentially severe and devastating effects of economic disruption. Based on extensive primary sources held in the municipal archive of Seville, the work argues that a careful reading of the records shows a critical difference between how plague regulations were written and how they were enforced, a difference that reflects an unacknowledged process of negotiation aimed at preserving balance within the community. The book makes an important contribution to the scholarly history of epidemics, and in particular to the study of the impact of plague in Spain, which until now has often been underrepresented in plague studies. Kristy Wilson Bowers received her PhD from Indiana University and teaches in the History Department at Northern Illinois University..

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