The Woodland Economy of Kent, 1066-1348
At the time of Domesday Book a great part of the county, perhaps a third, or even more, was tree clad, and while by the thirteenth century the proportion had fallen.
Age Patterns of Mortality During the Black Death in London, A.D. 1349-1350
This paper examines adult age-specific mortality patterns of one of the most devastating epidemics in recorded history, the Black Death of A.D. 1347-1351.
Ships, Fogs, and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia
Ships, Fogs, and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia By Timothy R. Tangherlini Journal of American Folklore, Vol.101 (1988) Abstract: This article…
Facing the Black Death: perceptions and reactions of university medical practitioners
Facing the Black Death: perceptions and reactions of university medical practitioners ARRIZABALAGA, JON Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death, Cambridge University Press…
Researchers reconstruct genome of the Black Death
An international team – led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany – has sequenced the entire genome…
Epidemics in Renaissance Florence
Epidemics and mortality in 15th and 16th century Florence, Italy, were investigated by use of records of the government-sponsored Dowry Fund.
Female healers and the boundaries of medical practice in post-plague England
Female healers and the boundaries of medical practice in post-plague England Chamberland, Celeste M.A. Thesis, Concordia University, March, (1997) Abstract This study is an…
Researchers discover original bacteria of the Black Death
The bacteria responsible for causing the 1348 Black Death, identified as one of the most cataclysmic events in human history, has been identified…
Transparency, Contract Selection and the Maritime Trade of Venetian Crete, 1303-1351
Transparency, Contract Selection and the Maritime Trade of Venetian Crete, 1303-1351 Williamson, Dean V. US Department of Justice, July (2001) Abstract The paper explores…
Plague Mortality and Demographic Depression in Later Medieval England
Plague Mortality and Demographic Depression in Later Medieval England Poos, L.R. (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) THE YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 54, (1981)…
Epidemiology of the Black Death and Successive Waves of Plague
Open any textbook on infectious diseases and its chapter on plague will describe three pandemics of bubonic plague.
The Black Death in early Ottoman territories: 1347-1550
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the possible impact of the Black Death on the early Ottoman society. Firstly, a temporal and spatial analysis of the outbreaks was established using contemporary Ottoman, Byzantine and Latin sources.
Etiology of the Dancing Plague
Etiology of the Dancing Plague O’Neill, Daniel InterCulture: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall (2005) Abstract The phenomenon of dancing mania (also…
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: a paleopathological and paleodietary perspective
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: apaleopathological and paleodietary perspective Yoder, Cassady J. PhD Thesis, Texas A&M University,…
Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
We explore the long-term persistence of interethnic hatred by using a new data set of almost 400 towns where Jewish communities are documented for both the medieval period and interwar Germany.
The Italian Doctor during the Black Death
The Italian Doctor during the Black Death By Quinn Wilson Vexillum: The Undergraduate Journal of Classical and Medieval Studies, Vol.1 (2011) Introduction: Italy…
The Peasant Diet: Image and Reality
There is no single image of the peasant as food consumer just as there is no single ‘reality’ of peasant standards of living in the Middle Ages. The peasants’ obsession with food in literature coincides with an equally popular upper-class assumption that what is actually eaten by the peasants is unpleasant to persons of breeding.
How the West ’Invented’ Fertility Restriction
How the West ’Invented’ Fertility Restriction By Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth Published Online (2010) Abstract: Europeans restricted their fertility long before other…
Black Death (film)
Black Death Starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, David Warner and Carice Van Houten Synopsis: The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the…
The eleven plagues of Edinburgh
The eleven plagues of Edinburgh By W. J. MacLennan Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Vol.31 (2001) Introduction: Much has…
Food and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries in Medieval England
In this chapter, both zooarchaeological and historical evidence are used to explore variation in patterns of consumption among different sectors of medieval English society (ca. A.D. 1066-1520).
The Black Death and the origins of the ‘Great Divergence’ across Europe, 1300–1600
One important recent theme emerging from the literature on early modern Europe is that some of the key structural and institutional changes that are responsible for the increases in incomes may have taken place rather early, in the late medieval period or in the era of the Black Death.