Appel à contribution : “Fertile Bodies, Fragile Cities: Art, Demography, and Women in Plague-Stricken Renaissance Europe”, RSA, date limite le 1er août 2025
Type : Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : This panel honors the work of Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, whose pathbreaking studies on women, family structures, and demographic transformation in late medieval and Renaissance Tuscany continue to shape the field. This session explores how recurrent waves of plague and demographic collapse in Renaissance Italy in particular and Europe in general reframed female fertility as a civic resource and maternal bodies as vital instruments of urban survival....



