CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Ganea, Sabina Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | Reception of the Plague in Transylvania: official discourses from the 16th-17th centuries |
| Summary | In Transylvania, as in other parts of Europe, the plague received a variety of discursive approaches. Physicians and laymen wrote treatises about the causes and the treatment of the plague, relying on the tradition of the medical treatises and subjecting their discourse to their religious affiliation. At the same time, preachers were writing sermons about the proper Christian way of confronting death and the plague. The religious and the medical discourses have similar approaches as a result of an ideological collaboration between them, which was ultimately reflected to a certain degree in the administrative measures applied to the plague-stricken Transylvanian towns. The present thesis represents an analysis of a selection of medical treatises and plague or funeral sermons collected from all the religious denominations officially recognised in sixteenth-seventeenth century Transylvania – Lutheranism, Calvinism and Orthodoxy. Additionally, the thesis will also contain an analysis of the few Jesuit letters which mention the plague, as well as a recollection of the main administrative measures taken against the epidemics. These will hopefully result in a comprehensive image of the reception of the plague in Transylvania and the main discourses elaborated when facing it. |
| Supervisor | Sebők, Marcell and Jaritz Gerhard |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/ganea_sabina.pdf |
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