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020			_a9781843832140
082			_a614.5732 _bBEN
100			_aBenedictow , Ole J _989509
245			_aBlack death 1346-1353 : the complete history
260			_aWoodbridge _bBoydell Press _c2006
300			_axvi,433p.
505			_aContents 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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650			_aModern movement (Architecture) _aMedicine, Medieval _aDiseases and history
650			_aModernism (Art)
650			_aDesigners