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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... Christian Russia . Traveling north across the steppes from the Crimea , it had little direct contact with the Tatars . The Black Death would not get there until late 1350 or early 1351 , and then it came from eastern Europe , not di ...
... Christian Russia . Traveling north across the steppes from the Crimea , it had little direct contact with the Tatars . The Black Death would not get there until late 1350 or early 1351 , and then it came from eastern Europe , not di ...
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... Christian clergy was far more sub- stantial . In part , this was because the Christian institutional , hier- archical bureaucracy was more extensive than that of Islam ; in part , it was because the institutional Christian Church had ...
... Christian clergy was far more sub- stantial . In part , this was because the Christian institutional , hier- archical bureaucracy was more extensive than that of Islam ; in part , it was because the institutional Christian Church had ...
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... Christian . Before 1200 , the baronial and impe- rial / Christian types had generally been dominant , but royal govern- ment also had had a significant role . In the course of the thirteenth century , as the trifunctional society began ...
... Christian . Before 1200 , the baronial and impe- rial / Christian types had generally been dominant , but royal govern- ment also had had a significant role . In the course of the thirteenth century , as the trifunctional society began ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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