The Black Death, 1346-1353: The Complete History

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Boydell Press, 2004 - 433
The best introduction to the terrible international impact of the Black Death.

Unique, sensational and shocking, this revelatory book provides the best overview of the Europe-wide history of the Black Death. The author's painstakingly comprehensive research throws fresh light on the nature of the disease, its origin, its spread, on an almost day-to-day basis, across Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East and North Africa, its mortality rate and its impact on history. These latter two aspects are of central importance here, for it is demonstrated that the plague's death rates have consistently been under-estimated and that they were in fact much higher, making the disease's long-term effects on history even more profound. First paperback edition published 2006.

OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo.

 

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Why the history of the Black Death is important
3
Vietnamese woman with a suppurating bubo in the left side of the groin 243
12
A female plague flea Xenopsylla cheopis about 2 mm in length
14
the Hydraheaded monster
27
Population density and plague mortality per thousand inhabitants
31
The territorial origin of plague and of the Black Death
35
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57
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72
Mortality in the Black Death in Spain
284
Italy
285
Average household size in four Italian localities 133980
289
Estimates of population San Gimignano 1332 and 1349
296
Numbers of hearths in villages near Susa Piedmont 133567
304
Estimated population mortality in the Black Death in Tuscany and other
307
France and the County of Savoy
308
Changes in number of households before and after the Black Death in
311

Italy
91
Chronology of the spread of the Black Death in Italy
94
Belgium
110
Switzerland
118
Institutions of new parish priests in Cambridgeshire in 1349
134
Wills proved in the Court of Hustings in London 134850
136
Norway
146
Denmark
159
Deaths of donors of chantries in Ribe Cathedral 1350
162
Donations to Danish religious institutions 134150
166
Donations to Danish religious institutions 134950
167
Donations to Swedish religious institutions 134150
174
Donations to Swedish religious institutions 134950
176
Austria
179
Germany
185
The Netherlands
203
Sweden
206
The Baltic countries
209
Russia
211
some countries or regions escape? What happened in Iceland Finland Poland and the Kingdom of Bohemia?
216
Part Three Patterns and Dynamics of the Black Death
225
Patterns of conquest dynamics of spread
227
Part Four Mortality in the Black Death
243
The medieval demographic system
245
Life expectancy and mortality in a population of males with a life
249
Problems of source criticism methodology and demography
257
Mortality in the taxpaying households of Grenis in the Black Death
268
Spain
273
Decline in number of subsidypaying households in the castellany of
318
Increase in number of households in the castellany of Ugine 13536
319
Decline in number of households and population size in parishes near
321
Chambéry 13489
322
Number of taxpaying hearths in four parishes in the castellany of
328
Decline in number of registered taxpaying peasant households in the
330
Mortality rates in the Black Death in the County of Savoy
331
Mortality in the Black Death in southcentral France
334
Decline in number of fiscal hearths in SaintFlour 134556
335
Mortality in the Black Death in France
337
Belgium
338
Decline in number of households in two hamlets in Artois 134786
339
Average mortality rates at ages 070 according to Model West life table
340
England
342
Mortality rates of English beneficed parish clergy according to diocese
359
Death rates on 15 manors in the diocese of Worcester
362
Manorial death rate among tenants
364
Mortality in 28 townships in the priory of Durham
367
Decline in number of tithing members in 7 Essex communities 134556
372
Tithingmen in Kibworth Beauchamp 134654
374
Plague mortality among landless men in 17 manors of Glastonbury Abbey
375
How many died in the Black Death?
380
Mortality in the Black Death by various regions and countries
383
Its Impact on History
385
A Turning Point in History?
387
Bibliography
395
Index
415
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OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo.

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