TY  - GEN
AU  - Benedictow , Ole J
TI  - Black death 1346-1353 : the complete history
SN  - 9781843832140
U1  - 614.5732 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Woodbridge
PB  - Boydell Press
KW  - Modern movement (Architecture)
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
KW  - Diseases and history
KW  - Modernism (Art)
KW  - Designers
N1  - Contents
List of maps, figures and tables  vii
Preface  xi
Acknowledgements  xiii
Glossary       xiv
Part One
What was the Black Death?
1. Why the  history of the Black Death  is important	3
2. Anatomy of a killer disease	8
3. Bubonic plague and the role of rats  and fleas	II
4. Plague: the Hydra-headed  monster	25
5. The territorial origin of plague and of the   Black Death	35
Part Two
Spread of the Black Death
6. The Caucasus, Asia Minor, the  Middle East and North Africa	57
7. Mediterranean  Europe	68
8. The southern  Balkans: Albania, Macedonia, southern  Yugoslavia, Greece	74
and Bulgaria
9. The Kingdom of Hungary:  Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovakia,	75
Hungary and western Romania
10. The Iberian Peninsula: the Spanish  kingdoms, the Kingdom  of Portugal	77
and the Kingdom of Granada
11. Italy	91
12. France	96
13. Belgium	I IO
14. Switzerland	ll8
15. The British Isles	123
16. Norway	146
17. Denmark	159
18. Sweden	170
19. Austria 179
20. Germany      185
21. The Netherlands   203
22. The Baltic countries  209
23. Russia     211
24. Did some countries or regions escape? What happened in Iceland, Finland, Poland and the Kingdom of  Bohemia?     216
Part Three
Patterns and Dynamics of the Blac k Death
25. Patterns of conquest, dynamics of  spread   227
Part Four Mortality in the Black Death
26. The medieval  demographic system	245
27. Problems of source criticism, methodology and demography	257
28. Spain	273	7.	The B
29. Italy	285	8.	Morta
30. France and the County of Savoy	308
31. Belgium	338
32. England	342
33. How many died in the Black Death?	380
Part Five : The Black Death : Its Impact on History 
34. A Turning Point in History  387
Bibliography    395
Index 415

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