Outside the Walls: Civic Belonging and Contagious Disease in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg

This dissertation explores the relationship between the imperial city of Nuremberg and its extramural, contagious disease hospitals (i.e. for leprosy, plague and syphilis) between 1490 and 1585. It analyzes to what extent the patients in these outlying institutions belonged to the city or were ostra...

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Main Author: Newhouse, Amy Melinda
Other Authors: Karant-Nunn, Susan C.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579035