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Darrera modificació: 2025-05-15
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Palazzo, Alessandro, "Pestilences and Contagious Diseases in the Middle Ages: Albert the Great and the Fourteenth-Century Plague Treatises", dins: Nicoletti, Michele - Palazzo, Alessandro (eds.), Epidemics and Pandemics: Philosophical Perspectives, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, pp. 53-103.
- Resum
- This paper explores Albert the Great's views on pestilences and contagious diseases. Albert did not dedicate a spe cific work or part of a work to these topics, but upon thorough inspection it is evident that pestilences were given careful attention within his corpus. Despite objective historical limitations (he did not experience any plague outbreaks during his lifetime and in his works the terms pestis and pestilentia are vague, covering a large variety of different sicknesses), Albert's investigation of the causes of pestilential and contagious diseases is worthy of consideration. My first claim is that he explained these phenomena in scientific terms and not as a result of God's will, which in the Middle Ages was often invoked as the cause of natural calamities. My second thesis is that Albert's explanatory models provided the basis for the late-medieval discourse on plague. In his works, the fourteenthcentury treatises on plague, the so-called Pestschriften, found some of the conceptual tools they used to construct the etiological and nosological identity of this devastating disease.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Filosofia
- URL
- https://iris.unitn.it/handle/11572/413453
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