Professor Samuel Cohn

Professor of Medieval History (History)

telephone: 01413304369
email: Samuel.Cohn@glasgow.ac.uk

R302 Level 3, History, 10 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Research interests

From the late 1990s, I have published and taught on two broad themes: popular insurrection in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, and the history of plague and other diseases from antiquity to the present. In addition, I have collaborated with medical anthropologists on comparative projects on cholera, plague and Ebola, and have engaged with geneticists and climatologists on the Black Death and syphilis, and gonorrhoea in eighteenth-century Scotland.

Furthermore, in December 2021, I published Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy with Oxford University Press. Ultimately, it confronts another plague of our times—the death of democracies.

In the same year, I published, Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy with Cambridge University Press. It was the first book in a new series at CUP, ‘Cambridge Elements: The Renaissance’. The writing of the third part of this book accompanied my application for a five-year ‘Advanced Grant’ from the European Research Council. I won this grant and in October 2022 began working with a team of young researchers on a new project, ‘Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death’. Over the past two years, we have been collecting and analysing statistically hundreds of largely unknown commissions for art (defined broadly across objects and social classes) from numerous archives in Italy and Catalonia. The project integrates two fields of study—spheres of inequality during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance beyond economics and trends in artistic commissioning for works of art to preserve remembrance in public places, principally sacred ones.

In addition, I was one of the original Co-PI’s and am presently a principal participant in the project, ‘Synergy-Plague’ (101118880), which won an ERC Synergy grant in January 2024 and began its operations in April 2024. It is funded for six years with an income of 10 million euro to explore the enigmas of plague (Y. pestis) from the Black Death (1346-52) into the twentieth century. The project combines the three principal domains of the ERC—the biological sciences, the natural sciences, and the humanities. Our collaborations include mathematical modelers, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, climatologists, soil scientists, entomologists, and historians of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

In 2018 I was the first ‘Federico Chabod Visiting Professor at L’Università degli Studi di Milano (Statale). I am currently an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, an Honorary Fellow of the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Prof Cohn’s present five year ‘Advanced’ ex-ERC/UKRI grant explores material culture from new documentary sources in numerous Italian and Catalonian archives and new theoretical questions that concern inequality studies; see below.

The Leverhulme Trust: Scholarship on Syphilis: exploring the emotional history of a pandemic

The remarkable collection of books and pamphlets on syphilis from their earliest appearances in 1495 to 1820, held in the University of Glasgow’s Special Collections and recently made more accessible through an analytical catalogue will support an investigation into understanding the medical, social, and emotional history of the disease over three-hundred years. This history crosses major medical and intellectual divides--Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the Counter Reformation, the ‘decline of magic’, the Enlightenment, and the surgical and epidemiological breakthroughs of the late eighteenth century. The current historiography suggests that progress in medicine from the seventeenth-century scientific revolution to the late nineteenth-century ‘laboratory revolution’ made this and other pandemic diseases progressively more comprehensible and thus less prone to placing blame on outsiders and persecuting the victims of disease. But syphilis’ cultural toxicity spread in the opposite direction. From the late sixteenth century to the nineteenth century and beyond, women became increasingly the targets of blame and the syphilitic of both sexes were punished for acquiring this sexually transmitted disease. Glasgow’s collection of 246 pamphlets on syphilis will serve as the gateway to explore the emotional life of this disease in broader contexts including that of other pandemic diseases in early modern Europe and the New World.

This project belongs to the Material thematic cluster.

Professor Samuel Cohn (Medieval History) and Dr Sarah Cockram (History) were Mona O'Brien's supervisors.

Professor Cohn’s present five year ‘Advanced’ ex-ERC/UKRI grant explores material culture from new documentary sources in numerous Italian and Catalonian archives and new theoretical questions that concern inequality studies; see below.

Research groups

Early Modern History

Publications

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Number of items: 142.

2024

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2024) Epidemics’ socio-psychological side effects from Antiquity to Covid-19. In: Emmrich, Thomas (ed.) Interdisziplinäre Epidemiologie: Zur Diskursproduktivität von Seuchen. Series: E-Medical Philologies / Medizinische Philologien. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 9783515137140 (doi: 10.25162/9783515137171)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2024) Arte y desigualdad en la estela de la Peste Negra. [Website]

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2024) The Black Death: Compressing inequality and its consequences. In: Sabaté, Flocel (ed.) Contra les Crisis. Per uno visió no catastrofista de l’Edat Mitjana. Series: Aurembiaix d'Urgell. Universitat de Lleida Press: Leida. (Accepted for Publication)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2024) Free Speech: Discussion groups among rebel “plebes” in sixteenth century Italy. In: Veldhuizen, Martine, Dumolyn, Jan, Haemers, Jelle, Kleij, Sonja and Raffe, Alasdair (eds.) Free Speech in Western Europe, 1400-1750. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2024) Iconoclasms of politics and class in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. In: Meer, Marcus and Scales, Len (eds.) The Politics of Iconoclasm in the Middle Ages. Boydell and Brewer. (Accepted for Publication)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2024) The idea of contagion and the Black Death. In: Kenneway, James and Knoeff, Rina (eds.) The Idea of Contagion. MIT Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2024) War and popular protest: the Popolo and the Italian Wars, 1494-1559. Eoa kai Esperia, (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2023) The politics of fiscal protest in early modern Italy with an emphasis on the duchy of Milan. Histoire Urbaine, 67(3), pp. 29-44. (doi: 10.3917/rhu.067.0031)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2023) The Black Death and consequences for labor. Labor, 20(2), pp. 14-29. (doi: 10.1215/15476715-10329778)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2023) The Black Death: collapse, resilience, transformation. In: Centeno, Miguel, Callahan, Peter, Larcey, Paul and Patterson, Thayer (eds.) How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Future. Routledge: New York, pp. 192-206. ISBN 9781032363219 (doi: 10.4324/9781003331384-13)

Stenseth, Nils Chr., Bramantia, Barbara, Büntgene, Ulf, Fell, Henry G., Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034, Sebbane, Florent, Slavin, Philip, Zhang, Chutian, Yangn, Ruifu and Xuo, Lei (2023) Reply to Alfani: reconstructing past plague ecology to understand human history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(11), e2300760120. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2300760120) (PMID:36877855)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 and Slavin, Philip (2023) The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all. Conversation (Online),

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2023) Epidemics’ socio-psychological side effects from Antiquity to Covid-19. In: Stahnisch, Frank W. (ed.) History of Medicine Days: the 31st annual conference in the history of medicine, University of Calgary (the Medical School) in March 25-26. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (In Press)

2022

Cohn Jr., Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2022) Forms of popular protest and notions of democracy in Italy during the Italian Wars. Pedralbes, 42, pp. 19-49. (doi: 10.1344/pedralbes2022.42.2)

Stenseth, N. C. et al. (2022) No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(51), e2209816119. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209816119) (PMID:36508668) (PMCID:PMC9907128)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2022) Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History, by Kyle Harper. English Historical Review, 137(588), pp. 1495-1497. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/ceac174)[Book Review]

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2022) Epidemics that end with a bang. Centaurus, 64(1), pp. 207-216. (doi: 10.1484/J.CNT.5.128785)

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2022) Neighbourhood strife and enmity in late medieval and early modern Tuscany: a platform for new research. In: Kane, Bronach C. and Sandall, Simon (eds.) The Experience of Neighbourhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Series: Studies in medieval history and culture. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 78-87. ISBN 9781472444707 (doi: 10.4324/9781315558349-8)

2021

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2021) Pandemics and comparative forgetfulness: The Great Influenza and the Black Death. In: Beiner, Guy (ed.) Pandemic Re-Awakenings. Oxford University Press: London, pp. 277-289. ISBN 9780192843739 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192843739.003.0017)

Cohn, Jr., Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2021) Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780192849472

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2021) Les révoltes cholérique: une lute de classe qui pourraut bien ne pas être à nostre goût. In: Épidémies et rapports sociaux. Éditions de l’Asymétrie: Toulouse, pp. 147-164. ISBN 9791096441150

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2021) Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy. Series: Elements in the Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108970389 (doi: 10.1017/9781108980586)

2020

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2020) La peste negra en Florencia = the Black Death and Florence. Revista Arqueología e Historia, 34,

Cohn, Sam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2020) The Future of History and its Recent Past: In Praise of Boredom. In: 50th Anniversary Symposium (IASH), Edinburgh, UK, 23-25 April 2020, pp. 117-123. ISBN 9780953271313

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2020) Material culture without objects: artisan artistic commissions in early Renaissance Italy. In: Duits, Rembrandt (ed.) Art of the Poor: The Aesthetic Material Culture of the Lower Classes in Europe 1300-1600. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781788316750

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2020) Mass death during modern epidemics: horrors and their consequences. In: Stearns, Peter N. (ed.) The Routledge History of Death since 1800. Series: Routledge histories. Routledge: London, pp. 45-62. ISBN 9780367137168 (doi: 10.4324/9780429028274-2)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2020) War and radical republicanism in early modern Italy. In: Ricciardelli, Fabrizio and Fantoni, Marcello (eds.) Republicanism: A Theoretical and Historical Perspective. Series: Kent State University European Studies (6). Viella: Rome, pp. 147-173. ISBN 9788833133034

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2020) Plague in India: contagion, quarantine, and the transmission of scientific knowledge. In: Lynteris, Christos (ed.) Plague, Image and Imagination. Manchester University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2020) The dramaturgy of epidemics. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 94(4), pp. 578-589. (doi: 10.1353/bhm.2020.0083)

Cohn, Jr, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2020) Social and institutional reactions to the influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 36(4), pp. 315-322. (doi: 10.1080/13623699.2020.1820165)

2019

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2019) Plagues of Compassion. Clio's Psyche, 26(3), pp. 288-293.

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2019) Trauma with a silver lining in the Middle Ages. Clio's Psyche, 25(3), pp. 240-242.

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2019) The topography of medieval popular protest. Social History, 44(4), pp. 389-411. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2019.1655884)

2018

Namouchi, A. et al. (2018) Integrative approach using Yersinia pestis genomes to revisit the historical landscape of plague during the Medieval Period. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(50), E11790-E11797. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812865115) (PMID:30478041) (PMCID:PMC6294933)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2018) Reasons to revolt: cholera and plague, social violence and blame from Procopius to Surat, 1994. In: Tyner, James (ed.) The Idea of Violence. Series: Kent State University European studies series (5). Viella: Rome, pp. 23-40. ISBN 9788833130736

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2018) The horror of the Black Death: How the medieval plague ripped families apart. BBC History Magazine, June, pp. 20-24.

Cohn, Jr., Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2018) Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198819660 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198819660.001.0001)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2018) Fear and the corpse: cholera and plague riots compared. In: Lynteris, Christos and Evans, Nicholas (eds.) Histories of Post-mortem Contagion: Infectious corpses and Contested Burials. Series: Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, pp. 55-81. ISBN 9783319629285

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2018) The thickness of city walls: Late medieval popular revolt in England and Italy compared. In: Campo y ciudad: Mundos en tensión (siglos XII-XV) = Landa eta hiria : tentsioan dauden munduak (XII-XV. mendeak). Gobierno de Navarra: Pamplona, pp. 129-146. ISBN 9788423534821

2017

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2017) Brexit shock: A case study. Clio's Psyche, 23(2), pp. 163-165.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2017) Mechanisms for unity: plagues and saints. In: Caferro, William (ed.) The Routledge History of the Renaissance. Series: Routledge histories. Routledge. ISBN 9781138898851

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2017) Final Conference of the ERC Einite Project on European inequalities from the Black Death to the Nineteenth Century. [Website]

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2017) Patterns of plague in Late Medieval and early-modern Europe. In: Jackson, Mark (ed.) The Routledge History of Disease. Series: Routledge histories. Taylor and Francis, pp. 165-182. ISBN 9780415720014

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2017) Plague violence and abandonment from the Black Death to the early modern period. In: Gourdon, Vincent (ed.) Le retour de la peste : nouvelles recherches sur les épidémies en Europe et en Méditerranée, XIVe-XIXe siècle. Series: Annales de démographie historique (134). Editions Belin et Herscher, pp. 39-61. ISBN 9782410008678

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2017) Women in revolt in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. In: Firnhaber-Baker, Justine and Schoenaers, Dirk (eds.) The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt: Comparative Perspectives. Series: Routledge history handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 208-219. ISBN 9781138952225

Cohn Jr, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2017) Cholera revolts: a class struggle we may not like. Social History, 42(2), pp. 162-180. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2017.1290365)

2016

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2016) Plague and prejudice. History Today, 66(3), 3 Mar.

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 and Kutalek, Ruth (2016) Historical parallels, Ebola virus disease and cholera: understanding community distrust and social violence with epidemics. PLoS Currents Outbreaks, 2016(Ed. 1), (doi: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.aa1f2b60e8d43939b43fbd93e1a63a94) (PMID:26865987) (PMCID:PMC4739438)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2016) Meet the social history editorial board: Professor Samuel Cohn on 'epidemics: plagues of hate, plagues of compassion from antiquity to the present'. Social History, 40(1),

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2016) 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Black Death. BBC History Magazine, 2015, 2 Nov.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2016) Paradoxes: rich and poor in Western Europe and the political consequences, ca. 1300-1600. In: Farmer, Sharon (ed.) Approaches to Poverty in Medieval Europe: Complexities, Contradictions, Transformations, c. 1100–1500. Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 145-173. ISBN 9782503555478

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2016) Rich and poor in Western Europe, c. 1375-1475: the political paradox of material well-being. In: Farmer, Sharon (ed.) Approaches to Poverty in Medieval Europe: Complexities, Contradictions, Transformations, c. 1100–1500. Series: International medieval research (22). Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 145-173. ISBN 9782503555478 (doi: 10.1484/M.IMR-EB.5.105463)

2015

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2015) I centri minori della Toscana nel Medioevo: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Figline Valdarno, 23–24 ottobre 2009, ed. Giuliano Pinto and Paolo Pirillo. English Historical Review, 130(547), pp. 1535-1536. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cev270)[Book Review]

Cohn, Jr., Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2015) Authority and popular resistance. In: Scott, Hamish (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 Volume II: Cultures and Power. Series: Oxford Handbooks in History. Oxford University Press, pp. 418-439. ISBN 9780199597260 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199597260.013.16)

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2015) Coping with epidemic crisis, from antiquity to the present. In: Brown, A.T., Burn, A. and Doherty, R. (eds.) Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective. Series: People, markets, goods: economies and societies in history (6). Boydell and Brewer Ltd.: Woodbridge, pp. 189-212. ISBN 9781783270422

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2015) Enigmas of communication: Jacques, Ciompi, and the English. In: Herrer, Hipólito Rafael Oliva, Challet, Vincent, Dumolyn, Jan and Carmona Ruiz, María Antonia (eds.) Espacio público, opinión y comunicación política a fines de la Edad Media. Brepols: Seville, pp. 227-247. ISBN 9788447215249

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2015) Renaissance hate and disease in European perspective. In: Ricciardelli, Fabrizio and Zorzi, Andrea (eds.) Emotions, Passions and Power in Renaissance Italy. Casa Editrice Le lettere: Florence. ISBN 9789089647368

2013

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034, Fantoni, Marcello, Franceschi, Franco and Ricciardelli, Fabrizo (Eds.) (2013) Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Studies in Italian Urban Culture. Series: Europa sacra. Brepols. ISBN 9782503541907

Cohn, S.K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2013) Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107027800 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139227070)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2013) Introduction: symbols and rituals. In: Cohn, Samuel, Fantoni, Marcello, Franceschi, Franco and Ricciardelli, Fabrizo (eds.) Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Studies in Italian Urban Culture. Series: Europa sacra (7). Brepols, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9782503541907

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2013) The historian and the laboratory: the Black Death disease. In: Clark, Linda and Rawcliffe, Carole (eds.) The Fifteenth Century XII: Society in an Age of Plague. Boydell, pp. 195-212. ISBN 9781843838753

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2013) Plague and violence against Jews in Early Modern Europe. In: EMW 2013: Jews and Violence in the Early Modern Period. Forham, pp. 57-69.

2012

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2012) Pandemics: waves of disease, waves of hate from the Plague of Athens to A.I.D.S. Historical Research, 85(230), pp. 535-555. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2012.00603.x)

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2012) The ‘modernity’ of medieval oopular revolt. History Compass, 10(10), pp. 731-741. (doi: 10.1111/hic3.12000)

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2012) Hate in times of pestilence. Clio's Psyche, 19(2),

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2012) Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments. Economic History Review, 65(3), pp. 984-1004. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00593.x)

Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2012) Repression of Popular Revolt in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy. In: Cohn, Samuel and Ricciardelli, Fabrizio (eds.) The Culture of Violence in Renaissance Italy: Proceedings of the International Conference, Georgetown University at Villa le Balze, 3-4 May 2010. Casa editrice di lettere: Florence, pp. 99-122. ISBN 978886087

Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 and Ricciardelli, Fabrizio (2012) The Culture of Violence in Renaissance Italy: Proceedings of the International Conference, Georgetown University at Villa le Balze, 3-4 May 2010. Casa editrice di lettere: Florence. ISBN 978886087

2011

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2011) Recollections of Rudolph Binion. Clio's Psyche, 18(2), pp. 219-220.

2010

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2010) Black death and plague: the disease and medical thought. In: King, M. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. (doi: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0016)

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2010) Last wills and testaments. In: King, M. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. (doi: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0015)

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2010) Plague and its consequences. In: King, M. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. (doi: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0062)

Cohn, S.K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2010) Changing pathology of plague. In: Cavaciocchi, S. (ed.) XLI Settimana di Studi: Le Interazioni fra Economia e Ambiente Biologico Nell’Europa Preindustriale, Secc. XIII-XVIII (Prato, 26-30 Aprile 2009). Florence University Press: Florence, Italy, pp. 33-56.

Cohn, S.K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2010) Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199574025 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574025.001.0001)

Cohn, S.K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2010) Revolts of the late Middle Ages and the peculiarities of the English. In: Goddard, R., Langdon, J. and Müller, M. (eds.) Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer. Series: The medieval countryside (4). Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 269-285. ISBN 9782503528151

2009

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2009) Highlands and lowlands in late medieval Tuscany. In: Mìorun mòr nan Gall, 'The Great Ill-will of the Lowlander'? : Lowland perceptionsof the Highlands, Medieval and Modern. University of Glasgow, Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, pp. 110-127.

Cohn, S.K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2009) The Italian plague of 1575-1578: transformation in medical thinking and writing. In: Curto, D., Dursteler, E., Kirshner, J. and Trivellato, F. (eds.) From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Anthony Molho. L.S. Olschki: Florence, Italy, pp. 343-362. ISBN 9788822258946

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2009) Alliance in Exile Between the Radical Ciompi and Magnates Against the Florentine Guild Republic (1379) (English translation from Latin text). In: Jansen, Katherine L., Drell, Joanna and Andrews, Frances (eds.) Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation. Series: The Middle Ages series. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 144-148. ISBN 9780812241648

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2009) Matteo Villani on Plague and Malaria (1357-58) (English translation from Italian text). In: Jansen, Katherine L., Drell, Joanna and Andrews, Frances (eds.) Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation. Series: The Middle Ages series. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 311-325. ISBN 9780812241648

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2009) A Rebellion in Firenzuola (1402) (English translation from Latin text). In: Jansen, Katherine L., Drell, Joanna and Andrews, Frances (eds.) Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation. Series: The Middle Ages series. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 25-29. ISBN 9780812241648

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 and Alfani, Guido (2009) Nonantola 1630: anatomia di una pestilenza e meccanismi del contagio (con riflessioni a partire dalle epidemie milanesi della prima Età Moderna). Popolazione e Storia, 2007, pp. 99-138.

2008

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2008) Epidemiology of the Black Death and successive waves of plague. Medical History Supplement(27), pp. 74-100.

Cohn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2008) The power of flags in late medieval popular revolt. In: Rocke, M. and Arnade, P.J. (eds.) Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays presented to Richard C. Trexler. Series: Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.) (17). University of Toronto Press: 2008, pp. 189-213. ISBN 9780772720412

Cohn, S. (2008) La pecularità degli Inglesi e le rivolte del tardo medievo. In: Bourin, M., Cherubini, G. and Pinto, G. (eds.) Rivolte Urbane e Rivolte Contadine Nell'Europa del Trecento: Un Confronto. Series: Biblioteca di storia (6). Firenze University Press: Firenze, Italy. ISBN 9788884538826

2007

Cohn, S. (2007) After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labourin late-medieval western Europe. Economic History Review, 60(3), pp. 457-485. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00368.x)

Cohn, S. (2007) The black death and the burning of the Jews. Past and Present, 196(1), pp. 3-36. (doi: 10.1093/pastj/gtm005)

Cohn, S. (2007) The black death, tragedy and transformation. In: Martin, J.J. (ed.) The Renaissance World. Series: The Routledge worlds. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 69-83. ISBN 9780415332590

Cohn, S. (2007) Popular insurrection and the black death: a comparative view. In: Hilton, R.H., Dyer, C., Coss, P.R. and Wickham, C. (eds.) Rodney Hilton's Middle Ages: An Exploration of Historical Themes. Series: Past and present supplements (2). Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199542109

Cohn, S. and Alfani, G. (2007) Households and plague in early modern Italy. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 38(2), pp. 177-205. (doi: 10.1162/jinh.2007.38.2.177)

2006

Cohn, S. (2006) Popular revolt and the rise of early modern states. Historian, 89, pp. 26-33.

Cohn, S. (2006) Bandiere e parole: le rivolte popolari al nord e al sud delle alpi (1200-1425). In: Simboli e Rituali Nelle Città Toscane tra Medioevo e Prima Età Moderna. Atti del Convegno Internazionale., Arezzo, Italy, 21-22 May 2004, pp. 99-103.

Cohn, S. (2006) Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425. Harvard University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780674030381

Cohn, S. and Weaver, L.T. (2006) The Black Death and AIDS: CCR5-Δ32 in genetics and history. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 99(8), pp. 497-503. (doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcl076)

2005

Cohn, S. (2005) Culture and memory after the black death: 'triumph over plague'. In: van Bueren, T. and van Leerdam, A. (eds.) Care for the Here and the Hereafter: Memoria, Art and Ritual in the Middle Ages. Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 35-54. ISBN 9782503515083

Cohn, S. (2005) The marginality of mountaineers in renaissance Florence. In: Milner, S.J. (ed.) At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy. Series: Medieval cultures (39). University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, USA, pp. 302-317. ISBN 9780816638208

2004

Cohn, S. (2004) Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France, and Flanders. Series: Manchester medieval sources series. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719067303

2003

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2003) Burckhardt revisited from social history. In: Martin, John J. (ed.) The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad. Series: Rewriting histories. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415260626

Cohn, S. (2003) The other Florence within Florence. In: Findlen, P., Fontaine, M. and Osheim, D.J. (eds.) Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy. Stanford University Press: Stanford, USA, pp. 33-44. ISBN 9780804739344

2002

Cohn, S. (2002) The Black Death: end of a paradigm. American Historical Review, 107(3), pp. 703-738.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2002) Demografia e politiche fiscali nel contado fiorentini (1355-1487). In: Zorzi, A. and Connell, W.J. (eds.) Lo Stato territoriale fiorentino (secoli XIV-XV): Ricerche, linguaggi, confronti. Series: Biblioteca (Fondazione Centro studi sulla civiltà del tardo Medioevo (San Miniato, Italy)) (2). Fondazione Centro studi sulla civiltà del tardo Medioevo: Pisa, pp. 47-71. ISBN 9788877814227

Cohn, S. (2002) The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe. Arnold: London. ISBN 0340706473

Cohn, S. (2002) The Black Death. In: Ross, J.A. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Population. Thomson Learning: London, UK, pp. 98-101. ISBN 9780028656779

2000

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2000) Group psychohistory symposium: response to Rudolph Binion’s 'group process'. Clio's Psyche, 7(3), pp. 146-148.

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2000) Le rivolte contadine nello Stato di Firenze nel primo Rinascimento. Studi Storici, 41(4), pp. 1121-1150.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2000) Collective amnesia: family, memory, and the mendicants: a comment. In: Rubin, P. and Ciappelli, G. (eds.) Art, Memory, and Family in Renaissance Florence. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 275-283. ISBN 9780521643009

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2000) Demography and the politics of fiscality. In: Connell, W. and Zorzi, A. (eds.) Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 183-206. ISBN 9780521548007

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2000) The Place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death. In: Gordon, B. and Marshall, P. (eds.) The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 17-43. ISBN 9780521642569

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (2000) The political economic of urban decay in late medieval Italy. In: Slater, T. (ed.) Towns in Decline, 100-1600. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 289-305. ISBN 9780754600848

1999

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1999) Piety and religious practice in the rural dependencies of renaissance Florence. English Historical Review, 114(459), pp. 1121-1142. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/114.459.1121)

Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1999) Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521663373

1998

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1998) Marriage in the mountains: The Florentine territorial state, 1348-1500. In: Dean, T. and Lowe, K.J.P. (eds.) Marriage In Italy, 1300-1650. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 174-196. ISBN 9780472106714

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1998) Women and work in the Renaissance. In: Brown, J.C. and Davis, R.C. (eds.) Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy. Series: Women and men in history. Longman: London, pp. 200-227. ISBN 9780582293267

Cohn, S. (1998) Europa 1348-1400. Los desastres de la peste negra y la pintura. In: Sureda, J. and Arasse, D. (eds.) Summa Pictorica II: El Esplendor de la Edad Media. Planeta: Barcelona, Spain, pp. 89-104. ISBN 9788489351110

1997

Herlihy, David and Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1997) The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Harvard University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780674076129

1996

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1996) Inventing Braudel's Mountains: The Florentine Alps after the Black Death. In: Cohn, Samuel Kline, Epstein, Steven and Herlihy, David (eds.) Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbour, pp. 383-416. ISBN 9780472106714

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1996) Piété et commande d'oeuvres d'art après la Peste Noire. Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 51(3), pp. 551-573.

Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1996) Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. ISBN 9780801853081

Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034, Epstein, Steven and Herlihy, David (1996) Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor. ISBN 9780472106714

1995

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1995) Insurrezioni contadine e demografia: il mito della povertà nelle montagne toscane (1348-1460). Studi Storici, 36(4), pp. 1023-1049.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1995) Burckhardt revisited from social history. In: Brown, Alison (ed.) Language and Images of Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 217-234. ISBN 9780198203186

1994

Cohn, S.K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1994) Burial in the renaissance: six cities in central Italy. In: Chiffoleau, J., Martines, L. and Paravicini Bagliani, A. (eds.) Riti e rituali nelle società medievale. Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo: Spoleto, pp. 39-57. ISBN 9788879882040

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1994) David Herlihy: Il ricordo di uno studente. Archivio Storico Italiano, 152, pp. 192-201.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1994) La storia secondo Robert Putnam. Polis, 8(2), pp. 315-324.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1994) Razionalità e 'civismo' nella storia italiano della prima età moderna. In: Chittolini, G., Molho, A. and Schiera, P. (eds.) Origini dello stato: processi di formazione statale in Italia fra medioevo ed età moderna. Series: Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico. Quaderno (39). Il Mulino: Bologna, pp. 177-187. ISBN 9788815047021

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1994) Testamenti e storia. Storia e Dossier, 11(80), pp. 45-52.

1993

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1993) David Herlihy: a student's view. History Teacher, 27(1), pp. 53-61.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1993) New trends in history-writing. Newsday, 1993, Jul 9.

1992

Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1992) The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. ISBN 9780801843037

1991

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1991) Le ultime volontà: Autorità del Testamento, la famiglia, le donne e la morte nera nell'Italia centrale. Studi Storici, 32(4), pp. 859-875.

1989

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1989) Donne della controriforma senese: Autorità e proprietà nella famiglia. Studi Storici, 30, pp. 204-224.

1988

Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1988) Death and Property in Siena, 1205-1800: Strategies for the Afterlife. Series: The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, 106th (2). Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. ISBN 9780801835940

1986

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1986) Plagues, consciousness and high culture in the early renaissance. In: Hall, Peter (ed.) Working Papers of the Center for European Studies. Center for European Studies: Cambridge.

1985

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1985) La 'nuova storia sociale' di rinascimento fiorentino. Studi Storici, 26(2), pp. 353-371.

1984

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1984) Florentine insurrections. In: Hilton, R.H. and Aston, T.H. (eds.) The English Rising of 1381. Series: Past and present publications. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 143-164. ISBN 9780521267434

1983

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1983) Five Centuries of Dying in Siena: Comparisons with Southern France. Working Paper. Fiesolana, Badia.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1983) Historians and historiography in Renaissance Italy. History and Theory, 22, pp. 222-227.

1981

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1981) Donne in Piazza e donne in tribunale a Firenze nel Rinascimento. Studi Storici, 22, pp. 515-533.

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1981) The character of protest in Quattrocento Florence. In: Gensini, Sergio (ed.) Il Tumulto dei Ciompi: Un Momento di storia fiorentina ed europea. Olschki: Firenze, pp. 199-200. ISBN 9788822230423

1980

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1980) Criminality and the state in Renaissance Florence, 1344 1466. Journal of Social History, 14(2), pp. 211-233. (doi: 10.1353/jsh/14.2.211)

Cohn, Samuel K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 and Di Simplicio, Oscar (1980) Alcuni aspetti della politica matrimoniale della nobiltà senese, 1560 1700 circa. In: Bertelli, Sergio (ed.) Forme e tecniche del potere nella città (secoli XIV XVII). Universitá di Perugia: Perugia, pp. 313-330.

Cohn, Samuel Kline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1980) The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence. Series: Studies in social discontinuity. Academic Press: New York. ISBN 9780121791803

1979

Cohn, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-5034 (1979) Rivolte popolari e classi sociali nella Toscana del Rinascimento. Studi Storici, 20, pp. 31-42.

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