BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:‘The Invisible Enemy’: Fighting Plague in Renaissance Italy - Professor John Henderson (Department of History\, Classics and Archaeology \, Birkbeck\, University of London\; Emeritus Fellow\, Wolfson College) DTSTART:20200526T170000Z DTEND:20200526T180000Z UID:TALK142438@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Julian Siebert DESCRIPTION:The study of plague remains as relevant today as in pre-indust rial Europe\, especially as we struggle to combat the threat of Covid 19. In this lecture\, John Henderson will provide a timely reminder that prese nt-day policies of ‘containment\, mitigation and quarantine’ have long historical precedents\, just as human reactions of fear and panic are sha red across the centuries. He will show how early modern Italy\, though wel l-known as the birthplace of the Renaissance\, was also renowned for the p recocious development of its public health policies. These have provided t he model not just for nineteenth-century policies in combatting plague\, b ut also more recent epidemics from SARS to Ebola and the Corona virus.\nTh is lecture focusses on the development of public health policies in sevent eenth-century Tuscany within a wider Italian and European context. The aim is to go beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor by examinin g the impact of regulations at the level of the neighbourhood\, street and family. Looking behind the optimistic gloss of official printed accounts\ , John Henderson will examine the often moving and tragic stories of the i ndividuals who ran hospitals\, the doctors who treated plague victims\, an d\, above all\, of the ordinary men and women left bereft and confused by the sickness and death of family members as they sought to adopt strategie s to survive during quarantine and lockdown. \n\nRegister"here":https://wo lfson-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/5115893848894/WN_miQzLKFvTjqqPfRe lhlWBg LOCATION:Zoom webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR