From Sickness and Death to Devotion and Festivity: The Plague of 1647 and Its Memory

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Author(s): Alejandro Llinares Planells (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 15
Source title: Handbook of Research on Historical Pandemic Analysis and the Social Implications of COVID-19
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Antonio Cortijo Ocaña (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)and Vicent Martines (University of Alicante, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7987-9.ch010

Keywords: Culture & Population Studies / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities / Sociology

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In this chapter, the author analyzes the interpretations that were made of some outbreaks of plague in the Kingdom of Valencia, especially those that occurred between 1647 and 1652. Specifically, he focuses on the majority view that perceived this disease as the consequence of God's wrath towards a certain society or people, due to the continuous sins committed by its inhabitants. In this context, the saints were the best allies of a given people to intercede with God to deliver them from the plague. Thus, the author analyzes some examples of these devotions, some of the Valencian patron saints, lawyers against the plague, or festivities that took root in many Valencian towns after that wave of plague in the middle of the Baroque period.

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