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Garza, Randal. Understanding Plague : Medical Imaginative Texts Medieval Spain. Peter Lang Pub 2008 Pictorial hardcover. Very Good Unused Octavo 119 pp
“Such a study concerning Spain has been conspicuously absent until now. The present investigation is among the first to bring together information that documents the pernicious behavior of the disease in Spain and to demonstrate how it changed the societies it afflicted. Studying the medical and imaginative texts of medieval Spain, reveals that the disease did, in fact, help change the perceived role of the medical practitioner, the idea of public health, and the portrayal of death and dying.”