Experiencing EpidemicsExperiencing EpidemicsExperiencing EpidemicsExperiencing Epidemics
  • Home
  • Episodes
  • Our project
  • Contact

Month: June 2021

You are viewing all posts published for the month of June, 2021. If you still can't find what you are looking for, try searching using the form at the right upper corner of the page.

  • Podcast

Ep. 12: Erasmus on fear, plague and prudence

  • June 23, 2021
In our twelfth episode, Professor Brian Cummings shares with us a letter written by the famous Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466-1536). In 1500, an outbreak of plague in Paris forced Erasmus to flee to...

Continue reading →

Leave a reply
Experiencing Epidemics

Recent Posts

  • Ep. 13: The World War, refugees, and the long history of epidemics
  • Ep. 12: Erasmus on fear, plague and prudence
  • Ep. 11: The Plague in Mumbai and Vienna (1897-1898)
  • Ep. 10: The travels and transformations of John of Burgundy’s Plague Tract
  • Ep. 9: Plague hospitals and disease control in Renaissance Venice

Recent Comments

  • Doina Anca Cretu on the World War, Refugees, and the Epidemics for the Experiencing Epidemics Podcast – Unlikely Refuge? on Ep. 13: The World War, refugees, and the long history of epidemics

Sponsored by European University Institute.

Experiencing Epidemics © 2020