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Description

1. xxx, 231 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world

Subject

1. Black Death > History

Contents

1. 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 -- Pychosocial 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 --
2. 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 --
3. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 04-15145

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.

Author

1. Byrne, Joseph Patrick.

Title

1. The black death / Joseph P. Byrne.

Imprint

1. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.

Series

1. Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.

LCCN

1. 2004043640

ISBN

1. 0313324921 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 04-15145