A plague year in Barcelona (1651): A conversation with James Amelang

Wednesday 3 March (Week 7), 4:30-5:30pm
Held via Zoom
meeting 3 ht

Miquel Parets, ‘De los muchos sucesos dignos de memoria que han ocurrido en Barcelona y otros lugares de Cataluña’, in Memorial histórico español: Colección de documentos, opúscolos y antigüedades que publica la Real Academia de la Historia, tomo XXIV (1895), pp. 350-416.

 

An English translation of the source can be read in A journal of the plague year: The diary of the Barcelona tanner Miquel Parets, 1651, trans. and ed. J. Amelang (1991), pp. 31-89. For an introduction to the source see Amelang’s introduction to the volume.

 

Professor James Amelang (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) will take part in the meeting.

 

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