Plague year 1680 in Central Europe: using Czech plague registers to monitor epidemic progression

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Plague year 1680 in Central Europe: using Czech plague registers to monitor epidemic progression

Original language description

The aim of the chapter is to provide information about the course and character of the mortality crisis caused by the plague epidemic in Bohemia in 1680. The unique evidence of well-developed system monitoring the epidemic spread was initiated by the governing and ecclesiastical authorities. This system was based on creating data on the number of deceased (and infected) persons in a concrete region, domain or parish, town or village. Indices frequently mentioned the names of the deceased people as well as their demographic profile, for instance: gender, approximate age, symptoms and length of illness, marital status and social class or occupation. In this context, we can consider the analogy between the Czech plague registers and London's well-known 'bills of mortality'.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-35304S" target="_blank" >GA13-35304S: Restrictive plague policies and the prevention of demographic and economic crisis in the Early Modern Czech Lands</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Crises in economic and social history. A comparative perspective

ISBN

978-1-78327-042-2

Number of pages of the result

22

Pages from-to

213-234

Number of pages of the book

352

Publisher name

Boydell & Brewer

Place of publication

Woodbridge

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