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    What Is an Animal? Contagion and Being Human in a Multispecies World
    Lumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40 35-53. 2021.
    From the early modern period to well into the eighteenth century, cattle plagues, murrains, or what were called “great cattle mortalities” were often analogized to bubonic plague; felling animals in devastating numbers, these catastrophes likewise afflicted living creatures on a grand scale. Three Enlightenment cattle pandemics (1709–1720, 1742–1760, and 1768–1786) propelled governments across Europe to enact harsh regulatory measures, including widespread slaughters, quarantines, and major disr…Read more
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    What Is an Animal? Contagion and Being Human in a Multispecies World
    Lumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40 35-53. 2021.
    From the early modern period to well into the eighteenth century, cattle plagues, murrains, or what were called “great cattle mortalities” were often analogized to bubonic plague; felling animals in devastating numbers, these catastrophes likewise afflicted living creatures on a grand scale. Three Enlightenment cattle pandemics (1709–1720, 1742–1760, and 1768–1786) propelled governments across Europe to enact harsh regulatory measures, including widespread slaughters, quarantines, and major disr…Read more