The Black Death plague constituted a major disruption of the ordinary pace of life of the society in early modern period. As such it attracted interest and drew attention. The Black Death menace caused panic and fear, and therefore various measures and actions which were supposed to prevent the outbreak of the plague or at least considerably limit its consequences were defined and carried out. Such practices were shaped by contemporary ideologies and mentalities and reflected everyday experience. The study of various means of dealing with the Black Death menace may be like looking in a mirror in which the curves of the quotidian lifestyle of the period are reflected. The present paper which analyses the last Black Death plague of 1713-1714 in the environment of a southBohemian town offers one such view. The mechanisms which the inhabitants of the regional capital Písek formulated and applied in the attempt to confront the iimpending Black Death menace, are specifically examined. The bearing of these mechanisms on contemporary devoutness is also problematized at the level of socalled semifolk discourse., Zdeněk Duda., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
Mor je zoonóza, jejíž epidemie sužují lidstvo od starověku. Od objevu bakteriálního původce moru A. Yersinem a S. Kitasatem uplynulo 120 let, během kterých byla tato choroba velmi dobře popsána jak z epidemiologického, tak z molekulárně mikrobiologického a evolučního hlediska. Studiem DNA izolované z ostatků obětí moru byl původce moru přímo prokázán u epidemií starých až 650 let. Vysoká mortalita při moru je dána neefektivním přenosem mezi hostiteli pomocí blechy jako vektoru., Plague is a zoonotic disease, the epidemics of which have troubled mankind since ancient times. During the last 120 years that have passed since the discovery of the plague bacillus Y. pestis by A. Yersin and S. Kitasato this infectious disease was described in detail, including its epidemiology, molecular microbiology and evolution. Ancient DNA isolated from the remains of plague victims have enabled us to establish Y. pestis as the causative agent in epidemics more than 650 years old. The high mortality of the plague is caused by an ineffective transfer by its flea vector., and Ivo Konopásek.