The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval EuropeRobert S. Gottfried is Professor of History and Director of Medieval Studies at Rutgers University. Among his other books is "Epidemic Disease in Fifteenth Century England." |
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... Asia , and Africa . To ease a bullion shortage , Italian merchants turned to Arab middlemen for access to sub - Saharan gold supplies . As demand for luxury goods and spices rose , more ships and caravans journeyed to south and cen- tral ...
... Asia , and Africa . To ease a bullion shortage , Italian merchants turned to Arab middlemen for access to sub - Saharan gold supplies . As demand for luxury goods and spices rose , more ships and caravans journeyed to south and cen- tral ...
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... Asia began to filter back to the West from travelers early in the 1330s . A series of droughts and earth- quakes from 1330 to 1333 and subsequent flooding in 1334 caused widespread famines , which were worsened by swarms of locusts that ...
... Asia began to filter back to the West from travelers early in the 1330s . A series of droughts and earth- quakes from 1330 to 1333 and subsequent flooding in 1334 caused widespread famines , which were worsened by swarms of locusts that ...
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... Asia was most crucial , but the other two also played an important role in plague's spread , if not in its origins . For ships on these sea - based routes brought infected Asian black rats , plague's most prolific carriers , to the West ...
... Asia was most crucial , but the other two also played an important role in plague's spread , if not in its origins . For ships on these sea - based routes brought infected Asian black rats , plague's most prolific carriers , to the West ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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