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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... Paris were summed up by Jean de Venette , a Carmelite friar and master of theology at the University of Paris . He wrote : So high was mortality at the Hotel Dieu [ Paris's principal hospital ] that for a long time more than 500 dead ...
... Paris were summed up by Jean de Venette , a Carmelite friar and master of theology at the University of Paris . He wrote : So high was mortality at the Hotel Dieu [ Paris's principal hospital ] that for a long time more than 500 dead ...
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... Paris's inhabitants probably died during the Black Death . The city offered many attractions and considerable economic opportunities , and immigrants swelled its population as soon as the plague had gone . But , as had been the case in ...
... Paris's inhabitants probably died during the Black Death . The city offered many attractions and considerable economic opportunities , and immigrants swelled its population as soon as the plague had gone . But , as had been the case in ...
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... Paris came into prominence in the thirteenth century . Bologna was unique among medieval uni- versities in that it specialized in higher , or graduate , degrees rather than undergraduate ones . Its law school was probably the finest in ...
... Paris came into prominence in the thirteenth century . Bologna was unique among medieval uni- versities in that it specialized in higher , or graduate , degrees rather than undergraduate ones . Its law school was probably the finest in ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
Copyright | |
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