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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... labor obligation on those parts of the arable called the demesne . The lord would keep the produce of the demesne , but would never farm it himself . Rather , the peasants pro- vided free labor . Another aspect of the labor service was ...
... labor obligation on those parts of the arable called the demesne . The lord would keep the produce of the demesne , but would never farm it himself . Rather , the peasants pro- vided free labor . Another aspect of the labor service was ...
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... labor of planting barely worth the effort ; and they were made continually worse by colder , wetter weather . By the end of the thirteenth century , Europe was in the throes of a classic Malthusian subsistence crisis . 16 Population ...
... labor of planting barely worth the effort ; and they were made continually worse by colder , wetter weather . By the end of the thirteenth century , Europe was in the throes of a classic Malthusian subsistence crisis . 16 Population ...
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... labor and boon services , that is , the substitution of cash payments for old labor services . Then , in the course of the fif- teenth century , most of the other labor services and many of the ba- nalities were eliminated , replaced by ...
... labor and boon services , that is , the substitution of cash payments for old labor services . Then , in the course of the fif- teenth century , most of the other labor services and many of the ba- nalities were eliminated , replaced by ...
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
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