EPUB3 BLACK DEATH 1348-50 2E

A Brief History with Documents

John Aberth

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781319048877
• eBook ISBN: 9781319049911
• Edition: 2
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This new edition continues to provide a fascinating account of the plague that ravaged the world in the fourteenth century. An updated introduction provides important background information and addresses the plague denial controversy. A new section of documents on environmental explanations for and responses to the plague joins sections on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic impact; religious responses; the flagellant movement and attacks on Jews provoked by the plague; and the artistic response. Documents from many countries — including Muslim and Byzantine sources — give students a variety of perspectives on this devastating illness and its consequences. In addition to the new environmental sources, new documents include a Middle Dutch Flagellant Scroll, here printed in English for the first time; German letters to the town of Strasbourg on their pogroms against the Jews; Ibn Kh?tima's medical description of plague symptoms and transmission; and artistic depictions of the plague saints, Sebastian and Roch. The volume also includes document headnotes, a chronology of the Black Death, Questions for Consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Foreword
• Preface
• Map and Illustrations
• Part One Introduction: The Black Death in History
• Part Two The Documents
• Appendixes
• Index