Plague Time: Space, Fear, and Emergency Statecraft in Early Modern Italy

By Nicholas A. Eckstein

Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth- and seventeenth-century policies were the…

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