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Chiu, Remi, Music for the Times of Pestilence, 1420-1600, Montreal, McGill University: Schulich School of Music, 2012, x + 317 pp.

Resum
Plague, a recurring affliction throughout pre-modern Europe, affected multiple facets of life; not only was it a biological problem, pestilence was also read as a symptom of spiritual degeneracy, and it caused widespread social disorder. Assembling a picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses to plague from the medical, spiritual, and civic perspectives, I examine the role of music in the culture of plague. Through the course of the dissertation, I analyze polyphonic songs that invoke St. Sebastian, the premier plague saint of the age, to illustrate the ways in which plague discourses may have shaped musical composition and, conversely, the contributions of the musical works to practical strategies against the disease.
Matèries
Música
Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
URL
http:/​/​digitool.library.mcgill.ca/​thesisfile107663.pdf
What are the images?

The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).