Samuel Cohn

Samuel Cohn, PhD, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Over the past 17 years he has focused on the history of popular unrest in late medieval and early modern Europe and on the history of plague. His latest books include The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe (2002); Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France, and Flanders (2004); Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 (2006); Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance (2010); and Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns (2013); and most recently Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS (2018), funded by a three-year Leverhulme “Major Research Fellowship.” These books are published by Cambridge, Harvard, and Oxford universities’ presses.  Professor Cohn may be contacted at .