Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45964
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  • Title: Responses to the Plague: Valencia and Cairo
  • Source: Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650.  Edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos and Mark D. Meyerson.  University of California Press, 2022.  Pages 223 - 223.
  • Description: Texts from the two cities identify illicit sexuality and women's behavior as causes of the plague and enact new restrictions.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Black Death Diseases Law Sexuality
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  • Geographic Area: Iberia ; Northern Africa
  • Century: 14- 15- 16
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  • Related Resources: The first text is from Augustin Rubio, Peste negra, crisis y comportamientos sociales en la Espan~a del siglo XIV: La ciudad de Valencia (1348-1401) (Universidad de Granada, 1979), pp. 122-23 and 129. The second text is from Irmeli Perho, "The Sultan and the Common People," Studia Orientalia 82 (1997): 150.
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780520296534