What was the Black Death?
What was the Black Death? This feature details the latest news, articles, videos and more resources on the plague that struck in the medieval world in the 14th century
The Black Death: End of a Paradigm
Against the assumptions of historians and scientists for over a century and what continues to be inscribed in medical and history texts alike, the Black Death was not the same disease as that rat-based bubonic plague whose agent (Yersinia pestis) was first cultured at Hong Kong in 1894.
Mystery of the Black Death
From the BBC Programme Timewatch First aired in 2004 For years, it has been believed that the Black Death, which swept through Europe…
The Black Death: Catastrophe or New Start?
This paper is going to illuminate on the history of the Black Death, its transmission, pathophysiology, symptomology, various medicines proposed, how the medical theories present at that time justify the medicines/ingredients used, the disparity in what was available for the rich and poor and health initiatives that progression of the disease
The Great Transformation? David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
The Great Transformation? David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West By Helen Louise Steele Published Online Introduction: It was…
Rats, Communications, and Plague: Toward an Ecological History
Rats, Communications, and Plague: Toward an Ecological History By Michael McCormick Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol.34:1 (2003) Introduction: Until recently, there were no…
Molecular identification by ‘‘suicide PCR’’ of Yersinia pestis as the agent of Medieval Black Death
Molecular identification by ‘‘suicide PCR’’ of Yersinia pestis as the agent of Medieval Black Death By Didier Raoult, Gerard Aboudharam, Eric Crubezy, Georges…
The Making of a Pandemic: Bubonic Plague in the 14th Century
In October 1347, several Genoese ships pulled into port at Messina, Sicily. The harbor master noticed crew members who were clearly ill disembarking and quickly sent the ships away. It was too late; within a matter of days, people were dead or dying in the city. The plague had arrived in Europe.
The Black Death in Bristol
The Black Death in Bristol By C. E. Boucher Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol.60 (1938) Introduction: Plague, Pestilence and Famine, the…
The Black Death and its Effect on Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Art
The Black Death and its Effect on Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Art By Anna L. DesOrmeaux Master’s Thesis, Louisiana State University, 2004 Abstract: In early…
Disaster and Recovery: The Black Death in Western Europe
Disaster and Recovery: The Black Death in Western Europe By Jack Hirschleifer (Rand Corporation, 1966) Summary: The Black Death – the great plague…
Microbes and Markets: Was the Black Death an Economic Revolution?
Microbes and Markets: Was the Black Death an Economic Revolution? By Gregory Clark Published Online (2001) Abstract: Did the Black Death have any effects…
Before and after the Black Death: money, prices, and wages in fourteenth-century England
One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that the Black Death of 1347-48, followed by other waves of bubonic plague, led to an abrupt rise in real wages, for both agricultural labourers and urban artisans – one that led to the so-called ‘Golden Age of the English Labourer’, lasting until the early 16th century.
The Black Death and Property Rights
The Black Death visited unprecedented mortality rates on Europe, realigning relative values of factors of production, and in consequence the costs and benefits of defining and enforcing property rights.
Mortality, Gender, and the Plague of 1361–2 on the Estate of the Bishop of Winchester
By any estimate the great pestilence of the late 1340s – the Black Death – was the most catastrophic of epidemics to strike Western Europe in the Middle Ages, apparently indiscriminate of age or sex.
Communities and Crisis: Bologna during the Black Death
Communities and Crisis: Bologna during the Black Death By Shona Kelly Wray Brill Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978 90 04 17634 8 Bologna is well known…
The Black Death: A Personal History
John Hatcher shares the challenges of writing and researching his book The Black Death: A Personal History.
How the Black Death Affected Painters and Art History
Images of death, tortured souls, and the macabre art produced during the Middle Ages that was highly influenced by the horrors of Black Death.
Understanding Plague: The Medical and Imaginative Texts of Medieval Spain
Understanding Plague: The Medical and Imaginative Texts of Medieval Spain By Randal P. Garza Peter lang Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8204-6341-4 The outbreak of the plague…
Factor Markets in England before the Black Death
Factor Markets in England before the Black Death By Bruce Campbell Paper given at The Rise, Organization, and Institutional Framework of Factor Markets…
Prices in the Medieval Near East and Europe
This phase of growth came to a stop with the Black Death beginning in 1347. Population declined, as well as agricultural and industrial production. The Near East suffered from impoverishment during the second half of the fifteenth century, according to Ashtor. Grain prices fell because of declining demand. Compared to the previous century, standards of living were reduced for the great majority.