The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents
by John Aberth
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A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century. A comprehensive introduction that provides important background on the origins and spread of the plague is followed by nearly 50 documents organized into topical sections that focus on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic show more impact; religious responses; the flagellant movement and attacks on Jews provoked by the plague; and the artistic response. Each chapter has an introduction that summarizes the issues explored in the documents; headnotes to the documents provide additional background material. The book contains documents from many countries - including Muslim and Byzantine sources - to give students a variety of perspectives on this devastating illness and its consequences. The volume also includes illustrations, a chronology of the Black Death, and questions to consider. show lessTags
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John Aberth (Ph.D., Cambridge University) is an independent scholar based in Roxbury Vermont. He has taught at a number of institutions in Vermont and at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and at Skidmore College. He has published several books, including A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film; From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting show more Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages; and Plagues in World History. He is at work on Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Late Medieval Medical Response to Epidemic Disease and a new history of the Black Death. show less
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- The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents
- Original title
- The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents
- Original publication date
- 2005
- Important events
- Black Death (1348 | 1350)
- First words
- It so happened that in the month of October in the year of our Lord 1347, around the first of that month, twelve Genoese galleys, fleeing our Lord's wrath which came down upon them for their misdeeds, put in at the port of th... (show all)e city of Messina.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Amen, amen pour charite at this instaunce.
- Publisher's editor
- Hunt, Lynn; Blight, David W.; Smith, Bonnie G.; Davis, Natalie Zemon; May, Ernest R.
- Blurbers
- Jordan, Erin; Gyug, Richard
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 614.573209023 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Epidemics, Poisons, Alternative Medicine Incidence of and public measures to prevent specific diseases and kinds of diseases Bacterial diseases Pasteurella infections, yersinia infections, chlamydia infections, tularemia Plague
- LCC
- RC178 .A1 .A237 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Infectious and parasitic diseases
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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