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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Page 56
... seem , as stars usually do , to be very high above our hemisphere , but rather , very near . As the sun set and night came on , this star did not seem to me or many other friars who were watching it to move from one place . At length ...
... seem , as stars usually do , to be very high above our hemisphere , but rather , very near . As the sun set and night came on , this star did not seem to me or many other friars who were watching it to move from one place . At length ...
Page 67
... escape this pestilence and continue the work thus commenced . 30 Another hand continued the chronicle : " Here it seems that the au- thor died . " The Black Death came to Germany across the Alps from The Plague's Progress 67.
... escape this pestilence and continue the work thus commenced . 30 Another hand continued the chronicle : " Here it seems that the au- thor died . " The Black Death came to Germany across the Alps from The Plague's Progress 67.
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... seems to have grown more quickly , perhaps because secular governments were bet- ter able to marshal their resources and begin the training process anew . Secular schools also seem to have recovered more quickly than parochial ones . In ...
... seems to have grown more quickly , perhaps because secular governments were bet- ter able to marshal their resources and begin the training process anew . Secular schools also seem to have recovered more quickly than parochial ones . In ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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