Jr Samuel K Cohn

Biographic Data

ID4571507
NAMEJr Samuel K Cohn
GIVEN NAMESJr Samuel K
FAMILY NAMECohn
SIGNATURECOHN J S K
AFFILIATIONSSamuel K. Cohn, Jr., is Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow. He is the author of Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200–1425 (Cambridge, Mass., 2006); Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France, and Flanders (Manchester, U.K, 2004)
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TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • The Great Influenza

    Cohn, Jr Samuel K CohnBOOKEpidemics2018

    This chapter asks comparative questions: did other countries experience the same outpouring of volunteerism as the US in the Great Influenza? Did women man the front lines of charity and self-sacrifice? It begins with the Deep South, which diverged from the national picture in the US. Here, men and their clubs, not women, played the dominant role, especially in New Orleans—the pattern set by a half-century of yellow fever resistance. The chapter …

  • The Great Influenza

    Cohn, Jr Samuel K CohnBOOKEpidemics2018

    Concentrating on America, this chapter explores the immense outpouring of volunteerism, compassion, and self-sacrifice wrought by the Great Influenza as seen in the response of traditional charitable institutions such as churches and men’s groups. Women, however, constituted by far the most significant charitable force, distinguishing this pandemic from all previous ones. From the Vanderbilts and McAdoos to black nurses, women crossed barriers in…

  • Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to Aids

    Cohn, Jr Samuel K Cohn et al.BOOKEpidemics2018

    Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimising bearers of epidemic diseases

  • Popular protest in late-medieval Europe: Italy, France, and Flanders

    Cohn, Rosemary Horrox et al.BOOKPopular Protest in Late-Medieval…2013

    This book is comprised of over 200 translated sources related to popular protest in Italy, France and Flanders from 1245 to 1424 . In particular, it focuses on the 'contagion of rebellion' from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their authors range across a wide political and intellectual ho…

  • Households and Plague in Early Modern Italy

    Cohn, Jr Samuel K Cohn et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2007Cited by: 17References: 2

    The remarkable Books of the Dead from early modern Milan and the parish and tax records of Nonantola during the plague of 1630 allow historians to reconstitute the patterns of family and household deaths caused by pestilence. Not only did deaths caused by this highly contagious disease cluster tightly within households; the intervals between household deaths were also extremely short. As much as one-quarter of all plague deaths were multiple hous…

  • Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348–1434

    Open AccessCohn, Jr Samuel K CohnBOOKCreating the Florentine State1999

    This book offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the political history of the Renaissance: its analysis of government is embedded in the context of geography and social conflict. Instead of the usual institutional history, it examines the Florentine state from the mountainous periphery - a periphery both of geography and class - where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. Yet, far from being acted upon,…