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On the Causes of the Deaths of Burgesses and Noblemen in the Early Modern Period in Upper Hungary Cover

On the Causes of the Deaths of Burgesses and Noblemen in the Early Modern Period in Upper Hungary

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|Dec 2024

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Fig. 1

Record of a plague epidemic in Sabinov during the years 1600 and 1622.

Fig. 2

A record of the death of Bardejov cantor Juraj Roth in 1663 during a plague epidemic. (“initio pestis mortuus in gravi et contagioso Apostemate”).

Fig. 3

A record of the abortion of Petr Kuš nír's wife, who miscarried in 1590. It was a boy who was already half decomposed (“Petro Kusnyrs puer abortuus halb verfault”).

Fig. 4

A record from 1642 that Christopher Dresserus died of tuberculosis (“Viam universae Carnis ingressus bonus hic senator, vir litteratus olim Collega scholae Patriae, correptus phtysi”).

Fig. 5

A record from 1588 that the mayor Laurentius Aurifaber died of a stroke (“Die 24. Mensis May sexta vespertino tempore coepit subito Apoplexia laborare ac eadem nocte hora secunda naturae debitum persoluit…”).

Fig. 6

A record from 1590 in the Bardejov registry of the deceased expressing the in evitability of death. (“Medice, cura te ipsum. Con tra vim mortis, Nulla herba cres cat in hortis. Statutum est omnibus homini bus semel mori. Et mortuus est.”).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2024-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4139 | Journal ISSN: 1335-8421
Language: English
Page range: 137 - 143
Submitted on: Oct 24, 2024
Accepted on: Nov 4, 2024
Published on: Dec 20, 2024
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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