The Black Death And The Transformation Of The West

Author : David Herlihy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674076136

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The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy Pdf

Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism.

Author : Philip Ziegler
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571287116

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The Black Death by Philip Ziegler Pdf

Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe's population. Philip Ziegler's classic account traces the course of the virulent epidemic through Europe and its dramatic effect on the lives of those whom it afflicted. First published nearly forty years ago, it remains definitive. 'The clarity and restraint on every page produce a most potent cumulative effect.' Michael Foot

Author : Yaron Ayalon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107072978

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Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire by Yaron Ayalon Pdf

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

Author : Carol Benedict
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Epidemiology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010180821

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Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-century China by Carol Benedict Pdf

Author : Rosemay Horrox
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719034981

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The Black Death by Rosemay Horrox Pdf

From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy.

Author : Ole Jørgen Benedictow
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843832140

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The Black Death, 1346-1353 by Ole Jørgen Benedictow Pdf

This study of the Black Death considers the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, mortality and its impact on history.

Author : Nükhet Varlik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107013384

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Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World by Nükhet Varlik Pdf

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.

Author : William M. Bowsky
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000783098

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The Black Death: a Turning Point in History? by William M. Bowsky Pdf

Author : B. M. S. Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521195881

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The Great Transition by B. M. S. Campbell Pdf

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

Author : W. M. Ormrod,Phillip Lindley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art, English
ISBN : UOM:39015037435354

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The Black Death in England by W. M. Ormrod,Phillip Lindley Pdf

Author : Samuel Kline Cohn
Publisher : Hodder Arnold
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0340706465

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The Black Death Transformed by Samuel Kline Cohn Pdf

The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. From a wide range of sources, this study argues that it was not the rat-based bubonic plague usually blamed, and considers its effect on European culture.

Author : Emily Mahoney,Don Nardo
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534560482

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The Black Death by Emily Mahoney,Don Nardo Pdf

The Bubonic Plague terrorized Europe and North Africa in the 14th century, killing millions of people. Readers learn many fascinating facts about what became known as the “Black Death.” They discover that the cause of the disease was unknown for most of the epidemic, and many unlikely things were blamed, including bad smells and occult rituals. Detailed sidebars and a comprehensive timeline augment the compelling text as it examines how the disastrous events of the plague were exacerbated by people’s ignorance of scientific facts.

Author : Therese Harasymiw
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502660787

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The Black Death by Therese Harasymiw Pdf

As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept around the globe, people have looked to the past for other examples of deadly disease outbreaks. In the mid-14th century, an outbreak of bubonic plague, or the “Black Death,” killed more than 25 million Europeans within a five-year span. Through informative maps, critical-thinking questions, and in-depth sidebars, readers learn the similarities and the vast differences between the Black Death, the 2020 pandemic, and other disease outbreaks in history. Understanding past pandemics enables readers to keep a level head when evaluating current and future outbreaks, reducing panic and leading to positive, effective solutions.

Author : Stuart J. Borsch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780292783171

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The Black Death in Egypt and England by Stuart J. Borsch Pdf

Throughout the fourteenth century AD/eighth century H, waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland. So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a nuclear holocaust. As countries began to recover from the plague during the following century, sharp contrasts arose between the East, where societies slumped into long-term economic and social decline, and the West, where technological and social innovation set the stage for Europe's dominance into the twentieth century. Why were there such opposite outcomes from the same catastrophic event? In contrast to previous studies that have looked to differences between Islam and Christianity for the solution to the puzzle, this pioneering work proposes that a country's system of landholding primarily determined how successfully it recovered from the calamity of the Black Death. Stuart Borsch compares the specific cases of Egypt and England, countries whose economies were based in agriculture and whose pre-plague levels of total and agrarian gross domestic product were roughly equivalent. Undertaking a thorough analysis of medieval economic data, he cogently explains why Egypt's centralized and urban landholding system was unable to adapt to massive depopulation, while England's localized and rural landholding system had fully recovered by the year 1500.

Author : John McGrath,Kathleen Callanan Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317455684

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The Modernization of the Western World by John McGrath,Kathleen Callanan Martin Pdf

This book focuses on the forces of social change and what they have meant in the lives of the people caught in the middle of them from medieval times through our current era of globalization.