Halting the Spread: Containment Measures by Land and Sea in 15th-Century Catalonia and Majorca
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/10211Keywords:
14th-16th Centuries, Crown of Aragon, Catalonia, Majorca, Urban governments, Epidemics, Anti-contagion measures, Lazzaretto, QuarantineAbstract
This article analyses the measures adopted by the urban governments of the western territories of the Crown of Aragon in the face of the epidemic outbreaks that followed the Black Death (1347-51) until the beginning of the 16th century. Specifically, it looks at the strategies adopted in the towns and cities of Catalonia and Majorca to control the mobility of people and goods in times of contagion. These measures began in the 1420s and 1430s, but they were not consolidated until the second half of the century. By a combination of unpublished sources and local bibliography, the sequence of advances in their development is reconstructed, putting them in relationship to other European territories. Finally, several prospects are outlined for interpreting the chronology and determining factors of the process.
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