'Lazarets never aimed to stop circulation', by David Do Paço (Sciences Po)
Channel: David DO PACO
Date: 21/05/2020

'Contagion' is a podcast series on circulation and pandemic threats throughout history jointly promoted by the cyber review Cromohs and the Cost Action CA18140 ‘People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492’1923)’, or PIMo, edited by David Do Paço, assistant professor at Sciences Po.

1st podcast: 'Lazarets never aimed to stop circulation'
by David Do Paço, an assistant professor in 18th-century history at Sciences Po, CHSP

The history of lazarets lies at the crossroads between the history of circulations and that of pandemics. Initially built to isolate and treat plague patients, they were then closely associated with the economic development of the early modern European states, and ensured the development of safe circulation in the Mediterranean and Central Europe. Here, through the example of the lazaret of Trieste, we can also understand that a lazaret was a micropolis, and the social and cultural importance of such micropolis for the city, the history, and the memory of Trieste. This history is also that of an empire, of its governance and of the many actors operating at the local, regional and global levels, despite an ever-present pandemic risk.

How to cite: Do Paço, D. (2020). Lazarets Never Aimed to Stop Circulations. Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography. https://doi.org/10.13128/cromohs-11314