Enfrentar a peste numa vila da Idade Média: Funchal, 1488-1489 (Nótula de história urbana)

Translated title of the contribution: Facing the plague in a village from the Middle Ages: Funchal, 1488-1489 (Notes on Urban history)

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Abstract

Sobretudo a partir de meados do século XIV, a Europa foi sendo alvo de recorrentes surtos de peste, que pelo seu elevado grau de contágio e pelo seu alto poder letal, servidos pela completa ineficácia dos remédios preconizados pela medicina, deformavam e condicionavam a vida de toda a população. Com o decorrer dos tempos, a sociedade foi aprendendo algumas formas de minimizar os efeitos da doença e foi-as aplicando, embora sem grande êxito. Mas nunca desistindo. E algumas dessas formas, embora apoiadas por outras condições de vida mais evoluída, mantiveram-se até hoje.

Particularly from the middle of the 14th century onwards, Europe suffered recurrent outbreaks of the plague, which, due to its high degree of contagion and its high lethal power, served by the complete ineffectiveness of the remedies recommended by medicine, deformed and conditioned the life of the entire population. As time went by, society learnt some ways of minimizing the effects of the disease: and applied them, although without much success. But never giving up. And some of these ways, although supported by other more evolved living conditions, have remained until today.
Translated title of the contributionFacing the plague in a village from the Middle Ages: Funchal, 1488-1489 (Notes on Urban history)
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)1-19
Number of pages19
JournalMedievalista
Volume32
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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