Monica O’Brien’s research explores the medical, social, and emotional histories of epidemic disease and illness in late medieval and early modern Europe. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of Glasgow in 2019 where her research was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, where her research focused on religious emotions and responses to syphilis. Monica is an Effective Learning Adviser at the University of Glasgow, where she continues researching as well as developing and teaching new courses including Theory for the Terrified and History of Argument to support students in developing academic skills, such as criticality.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Contagion in the Community, Contagion in Theory: Medical and Governmental Understandings of French Pox Transmission, 1495-1630.- 3. Medical and Municipal Authorities and the Power of the Patient.- 4. Moral Ideas, Practical Issues: Religious and Charitable Responses to the French Pox, 1495-1630.- 5. Protecting the Healthy and Serving the Sick: Municipal Institutions for the Poxed, 1495-1700.- 6. From ‘the French Pox’ to ‘Venereal Disease’: The Nuremberg Council and the Poxed Poor, 1650-1700.- 7. Suffering and Complaint: Constructing Identity as a Victim of the Pox.- 8. Conclusion.

Monica O’Brien’s research explores the medical, social, and emotional histories of epidemic disease and illness in late medieval and early modern Europe. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of Glasgow in 2019 where her research was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, where her research focused on religious emotions and responses to syphilis. Monica is an Effective Learning Adviser at the University of Glasgow, where she continues researching as well as developing and teaching new courses including Theory for the Terrified and History of Argument to support students in developing academic skills, such as criticality.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Contagion in the Community, Contagion in Theory: Medical and Governmental Understandings of French Pox Transmission, 1495-1630.- 3. Medical and Municipal Authorities and the Power of the Patient.- 4. Moral Ideas, Practical Issues: Religious and Charitable Responses to the French Pox, 1495-1630.- 5. Protecting the Healthy and Serving the Sick: Municipal Institutions for the Poxed, 1495-1700.- 6. From ‘the French Pox’ to ‘Venereal Disease’: The Nuremberg Council and the Poxed Poor, 1650-1700.- 7. Suffering and Complaint: Constructing Identity as a Victim of the Pox.- 8. Conclusion.

Monica O’Brien’s research explores the medical, social, and emotional histories of epidemic disease and illness in late medieval and early modern Europe. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of Glasgow in 2019 where her research was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, where her research focused on religious emotions and responses to syphilis. Monica is an Effective Learning Adviser at the University of Glasgow, where she continues researching as well as developing and teaching new courses including Theory for the Terrified and History of Argument to support students in developing academic skills, such as criticality.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Contagion in the Community, Contagion in Theory: Medical and Governmental Understandings of French Pox Transmission, 1495-1630.- 3. Medical and Municipal Authorities and the Power of the Patient.- 4. Moral Ideas, Practical Issues: Religious and Charitable Responses to the French Pox, 1495-1630.- 5. Protecting the Healthy and Serving the Sick: Municipal Institutions for the Poxed, 1495-1700.- 6. From ‘the French Pox’ to ‘Venereal Disease’: The Nuremberg Council and the Poxed Poor, 1650-1700.- 7. Suffering and Complaint: Constructing Identity as a Victim of the Pox.- 8. Conclusion.