The thesis concerns a research on the medical theory present in fourteenth-century Florence and London and look at how this translated in the measures their local authorities took against the...Show moreThe thesis concerns a research on the medical theory present in fourteenth-century Florence and London and look at how this translated in the measures their local authorities took against the plague. Through this, an attempt has been made to determine how medical theory could be exercised in either a similar or different matter, and thus determine whether an English city was truly as backwards as some historians claim or if its authorities did provide sanitary regulations against the plague. The research limits itself to the period 1347 to 1400, thus on the plague outbreaks of the fourteenth centuryShow less
