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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... Italy , the Netherlands , and northern Germany . Old trade routes were redoubled and new ones were created . Goods from Asia and the Middle East were carried by Italian merchants to markets all across Europe . A mercantile and in ...
... Italy , the Netherlands , and northern Germany . Old trade routes were redoubled and new ones were created . Goods from Asia and the Middle East were carried by Italian merchants to markets all across Europe . A mercantile and in ...
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... Italy and much of southern Europe . Because Italy was the commercial cen- ter of the Mediterranean Basin , the Black Death entered from dozens — perhaps hundreds of ports and fishing villages . This was important , for when plague was ...
... Italy and much of southern Europe . Because Italy was the commercial cen- ter of the Mediterranean Basin , the Black Death entered from dozens — perhaps hundreds of ports and fishing villages . This was important , for when plague was ...
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... Italy save a few Alpine villages . But Milan was exceptional . Generally , Italy , Europe's com- mercial nexus , suffered as severely as it did because of its many points of entry for different strains of plague . Conservative estimates ...
... Italy save a few Alpine villages . But Milan was exceptional . Generally , Italy , Europe's com- mercial nexus , suffered as severely as it did because of its many points of entry for different strains of plague . Conservative estimates ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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