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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... plague types , but it is still highly lethal , killing 50 % to 60 % of its victims . Pneumonic plague is unique in that it can be transmitted directly from person to person . This is in part the result of pneumonic plague's peculiar ...
... plague types , but it is still highly lethal , killing 50 % to 60 % of its victims . Pneumonic plague is unique in that it can be transmitted directly from person to person . This is in part the result of pneumonic plague's peculiar ...
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... plague's complex etiology and the necessity of insect and rodent hosts or live human victims with pneumonic plague casts doubt on the role of catapulted bodies , however numerous they might have been . It is more likely that the ur- ban ...
... plague's complex etiology and the necessity of insect and rodent hosts or live human victims with pneumonic plague casts doubt on the role of catapulted bodies , however numerous they might have been . It is more likely that the ur- ban ...
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... Plagues and Peoples , pp . 77–147 . 6. August Hirsch , Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology ( London ... plague is J - N . Biraben , Les Hommes et la Peste , 2 vols . ( The Hague : Mouton , 1975 ) . A good supplement is ...
... Plagues and Peoples , pp . 77–147 . 6. August Hirsch , Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology ( London ... plague is J - N . Biraben , Les Hommes et la Peste , 2 vols . ( The Hague : Mouton , 1975 ) . A good supplement is ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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