Die Epidemiologie der Pest. Der Konzeptwandel in der Erforschung der Infektionsketten seit der Entdeckung des Pesterregers in Jahre 1894

science and culture separate and then to show ways in which the two were "integrated", "linked", "fused", "blended", "synthesized", "amalgamated". A consequence is that naturalistic explanations are treated less as gendered products than as tappable sources serving medieval constructions of gender. For some readers, the primary material Cadden presents will have considerably greater interest than the syntheses of secondary literature used to define medieval culture at large. Yet the author has likely judged rightly the needs of her burgeoning field: she provides a wellinformed introduction to a little-known body of material, fully "contextualized" and integrated into existing scholarship.