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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... west as Ireland , where mortality proved especially severe . Only eastern Asia seems to have escaped . In Constantinople , the center of the Byzantine Empire , the plague was at its most virulent from autumn 541 until spring 542 ...
... west as Ireland , where mortality proved especially severe . Only eastern Asia seems to have escaped . In Constantinople , the center of the Byzantine Empire , the plague was at its most virulent from autumn 541 until spring 542 ...
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... West from travelers early in the 1330s . A series of droughts and earth- quakes from 1330 to 1333 and subsequent ... West trading system established in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . ' There were three principal arteries of this ...
... West from travelers early in the 1330s . A series of droughts and earth- quakes from 1330 to 1333 and subsequent ... West trading system established in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . ' There were three principal arteries of this ...
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... West . For them , depopulation was disastrous . Thus , the second plague pandemic changed the nature of land tenure all across Europe . In the West , it nurtured a prosperous , free peas- antry , who would become the yeoman of ...
... West . For them , depopulation was disastrous . Thus , the second plague pandemic changed the nature of land tenure all across Europe . In the West , it nurtured a prosperous , free peas- antry , who would become the yeoman of ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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