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​Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Historian

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​The Venetian Republic – like the rest of early modern Europe – experienced devastating outbreaks of the period’s most feared disease: plague. The social distancing requirements of our pandemic were well understood and implemented by Venetians in the 15th century. This lecture will take us onto the two lagoon islands which, for centuries, were used as plague hospitals for the city. On both the Lazaretto Vecchio and Lazaretto Nuovo, buildings, carvings and graffiti survive which allow us to explore diverse experiences of quarantine and epidemic disease in the early modern city.


Bio: Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw is an historian specialized in the Italian Renaissance. She is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Her current research project, “Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy”, is a study of public health and emerging ideas about urban cleanliness in Genoa and Venice. Dr. Stevens Crawshaw was the first to study Venice's two plague hospital islands, the Lazaretti, which were first established in the fifteenth-century. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Higher Education Academy.

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