Virtue, Virility, and History in Fifteenth-Century Castile

Devaney, Thomas

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“…Sodomy was by the early sixteenth century closely associated with sexual deviance in Iberian political discourse, although it had never appeared in the official civic accounts of plague. 129 Francesc Eiximenis's thoughts on the association between sodomy and disease also reached a much wider audience in the early sixteenth century, after his Llibre de les dones was printed in Barcelona in 1495. 130 Castellolí's account of plague was more of an inflammatory indictment of social mores than any official government response had been, perhaps because he was far less concerned about maintaining public order.…”

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From Purification to Protection: Plague Response in Late Medieval Valencia

Agresta¹

2020

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On the morning of 6 July 1395, the city council of Valencia met in the council chamber. Plague had been in the city since March, and despite the council's best efforts, the death toll continued to rise. This morning, the councilmen authorized several new measures to combat the epidemic. They organized charitable donations "to placate divine anger," and a procession to the chapel of Our Lady of Mercy to "beseech divine mercy for the said plague." Immediately thereafter, they authorized funds for the removal of "dead dogs, cats, rats, and other dead things that people throw in the streets and squares, and which in these times of summer and epidemic give great corruption to the city." 1 Almost in one breath, the council addressed both the immediate, material source of the plague and the divine anger that was its ultimate cause. Both hygienic and ritual approaches to public health have received considerable attention in the last few decades, but rarely together. Scholars of medieval public health have established beyond doubt that medieval and early modern city governments were concerned about issues of hygiene and devised measures to limit the spread of disease. 2 They have also made clear that sacred and secular medicine were closely The author's deepest thanks to the many people who read, heard, and commented on successive drafts of this article, including

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From Purification to Protection: Plague Response in Late Medieval Valencia

Agresta¹

2020

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Cities, nations and divine service: identifying Spanish merchants in late medieval Bruges

Brown

2016

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This article explores the relationship between ‘national identity’, the urban environment and its religious practices. As a gateway city, where locals met foreigners to an unusual degree, late medieval Bruges provides a useful case-study. The focus is on the processes that shaped expressions of identity. These often involved religious rhetoric and practices. Foreign merchants, such as the Biscayans and Castilians, were grouped into ‘nations’, and identified with their homelands, especially in their chapels; but why and how they did so was not the result simply of patriotism or a sense of otherness, but of urban and strategic agendas, their own and those of native citizens.

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Virtue, Virility, and History in Fifteenth-Century Castile

Cited by 2 publications

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From Purification to Protection: Plague Response in Late Medieval Valencia

From Purification to Protection: Plague Response in Late Medieval Valencia

Cities, nations and divine service: identifying Spanish merchants in late medieval Bruges

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