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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... suffered as well . Both Iberia and the north Italian cities had major famines in the mid - 1330s and the early and late 1340s ; conditions were so bad by 1347 that Sienese paupers , turned out by their own town fathers , showed up at ...
... suffered as well . Both Iberia and the north Italian cities had major famines in the mid - 1330s and the early and late 1340s ; conditions were so bad by 1347 that Sienese paupers , turned out by their own town fathers , showed up at ...
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... suffered from reduced demand . Languedoc , a region heavily dependent on its rural economy , suffered a condition histo- rians call Wustüngen - the abandoning of arable and , in some cases , even of entire villages due to the ...
... suffered from reduced demand . Languedoc , a region heavily dependent on its rural economy , suffered a condition histo- rians call Wustüngen - the abandoning of arable and , in some cases , even of entire villages due to the ...
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... suffered mortality of over 50 % , while parts of rural northern France lost around 30 % . But the Black Death was a complex combi- nation of bacterial strains ; sometimes it took only the bubonic form while , at other times , the ...
... suffered mortality of over 50 % , while parts of rural northern France lost around 30 % . But the Black Death was a complex combi- nation of bacterial strains ; sometimes it took only the bubonic form while , at other times , the ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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