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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... records for Greenland from before or after the Black Death , and only a few scattered records of plague's devastation . But when Norwegian ships put into the western settlements in the early fifteenth century , the sailors saw only wild ...
... records for Greenland from before or after the Black Death , and only a few scattered records of plague's devastation . But when Norwegian ships put into the western settlements in the early fifteenth century , the sailors saw only wild ...
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... records are quite extensive . Many manors had three distinct sets of records : account rolls - annual or biennial reports of payments and arrears of peasant obligations taken by the lord's man- aging agents ; surveys and extents ...
... records are quite extensive . Many manors had three distinct sets of records : account rolls - annual or biennial reports of payments and arrears of peasant obligations taken by the lord's man- aging agents ; surveys and extents ...
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... records of the granting of benefices , that is , the appointment of new rectors for parishes . These records survive unbroken from 1272 through the 1340s . The period 1339-49 averaged just over four grants per year . By contrast , from ...
... records of the granting of benefices , that is , the appointment of new rectors for parishes . These records survive unbroken from 1272 through the 1340s . The period 1339-49 averaged just over four grants per year . By contrast , from ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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