Sách nói: Epidemics of the Middle Ages
- Download General Preface audio
- Download Hecker's Address to the Physicians of Germany audio
- Download The Black Death. Translator's Preface audio
- Download The Black Death. Preface audio
- Download The Black Death. Chapter I, General Observations audio
- Download The Black Death. Chapter II, The Disease audio
- Download The Black Death. Chapter III, Causes--Spread audio
- Download The Black Death. Chapter IV, Mortality audio
- Download The Black Death. Chapter V, Moral Effects audio
- Download The Black Death. Chapter VI, Physicians audio
- Download The Black Death. Appendix I, The Ancient Song of the Flagellants audio
- Download The Black Death. Appendix II, Examination of the Jews accused of poisoning the wells audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Translator's Preface audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Preface audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Chapter I, Dancing Mania in Germany and the Netherlands audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Chapter II, Dancing Mania in Italy audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Chapter III, Dancing Mania in Abyssinia audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Chapter IV, Sympathy audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Appendix I, [LATIN] Extract from "Vita Gregorii XI," &c. audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Appendix II, [LATIN] From "Chronicon Magnum," &c. audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Appendix III, [GERMAN] From "Die Limburger Chronik," &c. audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Appendix IV, [KÖLSCH] From "die Chronica van Coellen," &c. audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Appendix V, From "an Account of Convulsive Diseases in Scotland," &c. audio
- Download The Dancing Mania. Appendix VI, Music for the Dance of the Tarantati, &c. audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Preface audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter I, First Visitation. 1485 audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter II, Second Visitation. 1506 audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter III, Third Visitation. 1517 audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter IV, Fourth Visitation. 1528, 1529 (part 1) audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter IV, Fourth Visitation. 1528, 1529 (part 2) audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter IV, Fourth Visitation. 1528, 1529 (part 3) audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter IV, Fourth Visitation. 1528, 1529 (part 4) audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter V. Fifth Visitation. 1551 audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Chapter VI. Sweating Sicknesses audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Appendix. A Boke, or Counseill against the Disease commonly called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse. By Jhon Caius audio
- Download The Sweating Sickness. Appendix (continued) audio
Thể loại sách nói
Tác giả
Giới thiệu
Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker (1795-1850) was a German physician and medical writer, whose research focused on the history of epidemics, in a broad sense of the term that included pandemics like the Black Death as well as the group of social phenomena known as dancing mania. The Epidemics of the Middle Ages comprises three of his works -- The Black Death, The Dancing Mania, and The Sweating Sickness -- translated by the English epidemiologist Benjamin Guy Babington. Despite what the name of the book may suggest, the events it describes are not limited to the Middle Ages.
The Black Death recounts the history of the bubonic plague in Europe, with particular attention to its cultural ramifications, such as the Flagellant movement and persecution of the Jews. The Dancing Mania describes mysterious social phenomena that occurred mainly in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries, in which groups of people engaged in apparently uncontrollable dancing. The nature of the dancing mania continues to be a subject of debate, and Hecker's book remains one of its most comprehensive descriptions. The Sweating Sickness was a series of epidemics that struck England and later continental Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. Hecker's account pays particular attention to its impact on political history.
Hecker's books were written before the germ theory of disease became widely accepted. While his accounts of epidemics are based on critical examination of historical evidence, modern readers are likely to disagree not only with his epidemiological theories, but also with his assessments of the evidence itself. These disagreements can provide a striking illustration of how the prevailing views of one's time may affect one's judgements about credibility of primary sources.
The audiobook includes appendices which contain source materials, including (for The Sweating Sickness) a 1552 treatise by the English physician John Caius and (for The Dancing Mania) examples of music as well as short texts in Latin, German, and the early modern German dialect of Cologne.(Summary by Kazbek)
Đừng quên chia sẻ với bạn bè nếu bạn thích nội dung này.