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On today's episode we have Professor Cindy Ermus, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge, explaining the Plague of Marseille in terms of the (relatively) new field of Disaster History. (56 min)
You can find Professor Cindy Ermus on Twitter, @CindyErmus. She is co-founder of the Age of Revolutions academic blog, found on twitter as @Historioblog, along with Professor Bryan Banks, found on Twitter as @Bryan_A_Banks.
You can also pre-order the upcoming book on environmental and disaster she edited, Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience, from LSU Press.
Today's episode is also the subject of her upcoming book on the Plague of Marseille which she is currently in the process of researching.
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Very interesting episode! I would love to learn more about how the Provance plague impacted diplomacy at the time, and why news/record of the plague spread so far beyond France.
Hello! What a great episode, please do thank Prof. Ermus for participating.
I'm profoundly interested in how power and authority manifests itself in urban spaces, as well as the interplay between city and country. Given the wide reach of the "Plague of Provence," who ran preventative measures? Who was in charge of "Disaster Management?" What dialogue was there between municipal, regional, and Parisian authorities, and was there any conflict between differing authority apparatuses which could have contributed to events like the "greedy merchants" ignoring quarantine provisions?