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14 octobre 2021
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RA Kashanipour, « "Very good are the words of the wise": Plagues and Remedies of the Colonial Maya », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tdbq
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By R.A. Kashanipour Early Spanish settlers, administrators, and chroniclers frequently lamented how Old World diseases ravaged native communities in the New World. The famed Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas described the ferocity of the first epidemics: “Then came a terrible plague, and almost everyone died, and very few remained.”[1] We know much about the devastation, but less about the everyday responses of the victims of disease, especially in the Americas where death and destruction acc...