Experiencing the apocalypse: the Black Death and the cittadini of Italy

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dc.contributor.authorChechotko, Matthew Evan
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorAlexander, Kristine
dc.contributor.supervisorHay, David
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-24T17:51:31Z
dc.date.available2022-02-24T17:51:31Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines urban Italian citizens’ (cittadini’s) responses to the Black Death (epidemia) through the emotional scripts and social rituals that guided their decisions. This analysis focuses on three main questions: How did people feel about what they were doing, or what was being done unto them? What did they do about how they felt? What were the limits of what could be done, and who set those limits? This analysis portrays what cittadini understood about the disease, its cause, origins, and prognosis, and their available avenues for responses to the disaster. Cittadini adopted emotional scripts and social rituals provided by the cultural institutions of urban Italy; however, when these failed, cittadini developed their own scripts and rituals or modified existing ones to interpret the pestilentia and respond to the sick and dying, thereby altering their responses, and fundamentally shaping their distinct experiences of the epidemia.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6150
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0581en_US
dc.proquest.subject0335en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectthe Black Deathen_US
dc.subjecthistory of experienceen_US
dc.subjectexperienceen_US
dc.subjecthistory of diseaseen_US
dc.subjecthistory of medicineen_US
dc.subjectmedieval Europeen_US
dc.subjectItalyen_US
dc.subjectbubonic plagueen_US
dc.subjectBlack Death--Italy--14th centuryen_US
dc.subjectBlack Death--Social aspects--Italy--14th centuryen_US
dc.subjectItaly--Social conditions--14th centuryen_US
dc.subjectPlague--Italy--14th centuryen_US
dc.subjectDiseases and historyen_US
dc.subjectCivilization, Medieval--14th centuryen_US
dc.subjectCity and town life--Italy--14th centuryen_US
dc.subjectCity dwellers--Italy--14th century--Attitudesen_US
dc.subjectCities and towns, Medieval--Italyen_US
dc.subjectHistoriographyen_US
dc.subjectMedicine, Medieval--Italyen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleExperiencing the apocalypse: the Black Death and the cittadini of Italyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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