| Description |
xxx, 231 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
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Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world |
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Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-215) and index. |
| Contents |
Chronology -- Overview: plague in the middle ages -- The black death and modern medicine -- The black death and medieval medicine -- Effects of the black death on European society -- Psychosocial reactions to the black death -- European art and the black death -- Individual and civic responses in Cairo and Florence -- Epilogue: The end of the black death and its continuing fascination -- |
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Biographies: Abu Abdullah ibn Battuta -- Charles IV -- Clement VI -- Francesco di Marco Datini da Prato -- Galen of Pergamum -- Gentile da Foligno -- Lisad-ad Din ibn al-Khatib -- Francesco Petrarch -- Alexandre Emile John Yersin -- |
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Primary documents: The description of the pestilence : from the Historiarum (after 1355) -- "Wer wil nu wissen das" (c.1349-55) -- Plague Tract (1348) -- Compendium de epidemia, Book 2 (1348) -- "A diet and doctrine for the pestilence" (fifteenth century) -- The treatise on the pestilence in Italian : Chapter 2 (c. 1447) -- Last testament of Marco Datini of Prato, Italy, June 1, 1348 -- "Risālah al-Nabaʼ ʻan al-Wabaʼ" : an essay on the report of the pestilence (1348) -- Anonymous poem in the Chronicle of Damascus, 1389-97 -- "Disputation betwixt the body and worms" -- The jews of Strassburg, February 1349 -- A Florentine diary : December 1496 to February 1499. |
| Summary |
Looks at the plague that wiped out much of medieval Europe; discussing its impact on society, medicine, culture, and the individual. An ideal introduction and guide to the greatest natural disaster to ever curse humanity, replete with illustrations, biographical sketches, and primary documents. Presents medieval and modern perspectives of this disturbing, yet fascinating tragic historical episode. |
| Subject |
Black Death -- History.
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Plague -- history.
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Disease Outbreaks -- history.
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History, Medieval.
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| ISBN |
0313324921 alkaline paper |
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9780313324925 alkaline paper |
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