Medievalists.net » Syphilis http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Prevention Strategies and Changes in Sexual Mores in Response to the Outbreak of Syphilis in Europe in the Early Modern Age http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/21/prevention-strategies-changes-sexual-mores-response-outbreak-syphilis-europe-early-modern-age/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/21/prevention-strategies-changes-sexual-mores-response-outbreak-syphilis-europe-early-modern-age/#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:18:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52738 Prevention Strategies and Changes in Sexual Mores in Response to the Outbreak of Syphilis in Europe in the Early Modern Age By Eugenia Tognotti Journal of Ancient Diseases and Preventive Remedies, Vol.2:2 (2014) Abstract: In the same way as AIDS in the 20th century, syphilis was the sexual scourge of the 16th century. Both of these […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/21/prevention-strategies-changes-sexual-mores-response-outbreak-syphilis-europe-early-modern-age/feed/ 0 Syphilis in Renaissance Europe: rapid evolution of an introduced sexually transmitted disease? http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/22/syphilis-in-renaissance-europe-rapid-evolution-of-an-introduced-sexually-transmitted-disease/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/22/syphilis-in-renaissance-europe-rapid-evolution-of-an-introduced-sexually-transmitted-disease/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:19:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38856 When syphilis first appeared in Europe in 1495, it was an acute and extremely unpleasant disease. After only a few years it was less severe than it once was, and it changed over the next 50 years into a milder, chronic disease.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/22/syphilis-in-renaissance-europe-rapid-evolution-of-an-introduced-sexually-transmitted-disease/feed/ 0 Bearing the Cross: Syphilis and the Founding of the Holy Cross Hospital in Fifteenth-Century Nuremberg http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/19/bearing-the-cross-syphilis-and-the-founding-of-the-holy-cross-hospital-in-fifteenth-century-nuremberg/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/19/bearing-the-cross-syphilis-and-the-founding-of-the-holy-cross-hospital-in-fifteenth-century-nuremberg/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:03:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33983 As syphilis crept up from southern Italy the Nuremberg city council, like many leaders elsewhere, prepared for the impending onslaught of this mysterious new disease. As the highest political authority in the city, the council considered the health of its citizens its responsibility.

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