Miasma of Pestilence in the Universal Perspective: The Chronicle videlicet the History of the World by Marcin Bielski

Abstract

The article deals with the informations of pestilences in Chronicle that is the History of the Whole World (1564) by Marcin Bielski. The following issues have been taken under examination: ranges of pestilences, their causes, the way of therapy, metaphors of infections, narrative forms of records and their modalities.