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ISBN 10: 0197520109
ISBN 13: 9780197520109
Author: John Aberth
In The Black Death: A New History of the Great Mortality in Europe, 1347-1500, leading scholar John Aberth provides the most authoritative, up-to-date treatment of the Black Death, giving not just a narrative account but also a thorough examination of the latest forensic, historical, and DNA evidence to date. Offering new information, research, and debates that have not been covered before in previous works, this unique text is poised to become the new standard resource on the Black Death.
The Black Death 1st Table of contents:
Introduction
The Evolution and Epidemiology of Plague
The Three Pandemics of Plague
Paleomicrobiology Identifies the Black Death as Plague
1 “It Began in the Land of Darkness”
Where Did the Black Death Begin?
How Did the Black Death Spread?
Mapping the Black Death
2 Bring Out Your Dead!
How the Black Death Raised the Mortality Ante
Plague Mortality, 1347–1353
Plague Mortality, 1353–c.1500
Why Did the Black Death End?
Was the Black Death Indiscriminate?
The Personal Side of Plague Mortality
3 Doctoring the Black Death
Causes
Signs
Prevention
Cure
The Verdict on Medieval Medicine
4 What Goes Around Comes Around
Environmental Causes and Signs of Plague
Fear of Stenches
Environmental Factors Affecting Plague Vectors and Hosts: Climate
Environmental Factors Affecting Plague Hosts: Rats and Housing
5 “Al Shal [Not] Be Wel”
Spirituality and Piety in the Wake of the Plague
Islam’s Response to the Black Death
The Problem of Post-Plague Parish Poverty
Towards a Reformation?
6 “To Yow Myn Hand Is Rawght to This Daunce”
Painted Depictions of Plague
The Plague Saints
The Macabre or Memento Mori
Physical Impacts of Plague
7 The “Red Knights of Christ”
The Flagellant Itinerary
The Flagellant Ritual
Perspectives on the Flagellants
The Flagellants’ Suppression
8 “They Processed to the Flames Dancing, Singing, and Weeping”
First Stirrings in Southern France
The Conspiracy in Catalonia
The Poisoned Springs of the Savoy
The Great Massacres of the Kingdom of Germany
The Persecuted and Their Persecutors
Aftermath of the Conspiracy
9 When Brothers Abandoned Brothers
Fear of Being Abandoned
Fear of Being Forgotten
Fear of Being Unshriven
Plague and the Poor
10 The Peasants Are Revolting!
The Plague Economy
Was There Economic Recovery after the Black Death?
A Golden Age of the Laborer?
The Decline of Serfdom
The Peasant Land Market
A Time of Transition?
Epilogue Could the Black Death Happen Again?
Appendix
The Black Death Spread Too Fast to Be Bubonic Plague
There Weren’t Enough Rats in Medieval Europe to Spread Bubonic Plague.
The Black Death and Plague Had Different Symptoms.
People Acquired Long-Term Immunity to the Black Death, but Not to Plague.
The Black Death and Plague Occurred in Different Seasons of the Year and with Different Cyclical Patterns.
The Black Death Had a Far Higher Mortality than Modern Plague.
The Black Death Was More Density Dependent (i.e., Was More Virulent in Population Centers, or Cities) than Modern Plague.
The Black Death Was Pneumonic Plague.
The Black Death Was Bubonic Plague, Spread by the Human Flea ( Pulex irritans ) .
The Black Death Was Bubonic Plague, Spread by the Human Body Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus).
The Black Death Was Anthrax.
The Black Death Was a Viral Disease, such as Hemhorragic Fever or Hemhorragic Plague.
The Black Death Was No Known Disease, or One That Is Now Extinct.
The Black Death Came from Outer Space!
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