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Book

The black death

Call Number

  • 614.5732 S6318 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c2008.

Physical Description

127 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.

Summary

In 1347, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Now believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other rarer plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the continent for several terrible years before finally fading away in 1352. Most historians believe that the pandemic, which also swept across parts of Western Asia and North Africa, annihilated 33 to 60 percent of Europe's population - roughly 25 to 45 million men, women, and children. This massive depopulation had a deep impact on the course of European history, speeding up or initiating important social, economic, religious, and cultural changes.-P [4] cover.

Contents

  • Setting the stage for the black death
  • What was the black death?
  • The path of the black death
  • The black death psyche
  • Medieval medicine and the black death
  • Social and economic impact of the black death
  • Religion, culture, and the black death
  • The end of the black death.

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