Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times

Christos Lynteris is a social anthropologist working on the anthropological and historical examination of epidemics, zoonosis, and epidemiological epistemology. He is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK, currently leading a Wellcome-funded project on The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis. He was Principal Investigator of the ERC funded research project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic (University of Cambridge, 2013-17, University of St Andrews 2017-2018).

• 1. Introduction: Imaging and Imagining Plague- Christos Lynteris.- 2. Why Is Black Death Black? European Gothic Imaginaries of ‘Oriental’ Plague- Nükhet Varlık.- 3. Painting the Plague: 1250-1630- Sheila Barker.- 4. Pesthouse Imaginaries- Ann G. Carmichael.- 5. Picturing Plague: Photography, Pestilence and Cremation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century India- David Arnold.- 6. Reflexive Gaze and Constructed Meanings: Photographs of Plague Hospitals in Colonial Bombay- Abhijit Sarkar.- 7. Plague in India: Contagion, Quarantine, and the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge- Samuel Cohn Jr..- 8. Bamboo Dwellers: Plague, Photography and the House in Colonial Java- Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk.- 9. Making a Model Plague: Paper Technologies and Epidemiological Casuistry in the Early Twentieth Century- Lukas Engelmann.- 10. Ethnographic Images of the Plague: Outbreak and the Landscape of Memory in Madagascar- Genese Marie Sodikoff and Z. R. Dieudonné Rasolonomenjanahary