Health, Plague And Society In Early Modern Malta
“This book is a fascinating, informative, must-read for anyone interested in Early Modern Health Care and Plague in
the Mediterranean. Carmel Cassar’s well-documented and carefully researched case-studies together with their
colourful characters challenge traditional views on elite versus popular medicine. The author manages to create an
easy to follow and delightful account of Malta’s daily life as relates to health and illness in a time of big socio-political
transition. Excellent!”
Teresa Huguet-Termes
University of Barcelona
“The culmination of a lifetime’s scholarship into the history of Maltese society, Carmel Cassar takes us into a world
dominated by “bad airs”, overeating by a few and undernourishment for the many, smallpox, syphilis and, above all,
plague. While not forgetting the wider European and Mediterranean context, the book is alive with real Maltese,
healers and sufferers. The authorities did what they could, limited by their knowledge and their administrative
capacities, as Cassar demonstrates in this richly documented study.”
David Gentilcore
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
By: Carmel Cassar
Format: paperback
No of pages 216
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