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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... late medieval crisis was moral rather than ec- onomic . Its roots lay in the philosophical and religious tensions of the thirteenth century . This diminution of importance of the Black Death continued to attract disciples after World ...
... late medieval crisis was moral rather than ec- onomic . Its roots lay in the philosophical and religious tensions of the thirteenth century . This diminution of importance of the Black Death continued to attract disciples after World ...
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... late medieval Normandy has shown that , by 1348 , like Languedoc , the duchy was in the midst of a general crisis begun by the famines of the 1290s and 1310s and exacerbated by the Hundred Years ' War . But these crises paled beside the ...
... late medieval Normandy has shown that , by 1348 , like Languedoc , the duchy was in the midst of a general crisis begun by the famines of the 1290s and 1310s and exacerbated by the Hundred Years ' War . But these crises paled beside the ...
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... late fifteenth century . Great care and caution must be taken in assessing the long - term effects of the second plague pandemic . There is the danger of making a posteriori arguments , that is , of determining the state and problems of ...
... late fifteenth century . Great care and caution must be taken in assessing the long - term effects of the second plague pandemic . There is the danger of making a posteriori arguments , that is , of determining the state and problems of ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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