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The Black Death

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Manchester University Press, Oct 15, 1994 - History - 364 pages
This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with particular reference to its spread across England from 1345 to 1349.
  

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Contents

The fourth pestilence 137479 88
11
The plague in continental Europe
14
The plague in Florence
26
The plague in Padua
34
The plague in Sicily
35
The plague in Avignon
41
The plague seen from Tournai
45
The plague in France according to Jean de Venette
54
Ordinances against the spread of plague Pistoia 1348
194
Plague regulations of Bernabd Visconti Lord of Milan
203
Parliamentary statute of 1388
205
Human agency
207
The persecution of the Jews
208
Measures taken against the Jews in Lausanne
210
Examination of Jews captured in Savoy
211
Letter from Cologne to Strassburg
219

The plague in France according to the Great Chronicle
58
The plague in central Europe
59
The plague in the British Isles
62
The arrival of the plague in Dorset
63
The plague spreads to London
64
The plague in York
65
The plague seen from Lincolnshire
66
The plague at Meaux Abbey
67
The plague seen from Rochester
70
The plague according to John of Reading
74
The plague according to Henry Knighton
75
The plague according to Geoffrey le Baker
80
The plague in Ireland
82
The plague in Scotland
84
The second pestilence 1361
85
The third pestilence 1369
88
The fifth pestilence 139093
91
EXPLANATIONS AND RESPONSES
93
The religious response
111
Intercessionary processions 2
112
The importance of prayer
113
The response in Exeter 15
115
A Voice in Rama 15
116
Edward III to the bishops 5 September 1349 17
117
Causes for gratitude 18
118
Processions against the plague in 1361 19
119
A call for prayers in 1375
120
A prayer against pestilence to the Virgin Mary
124
A prayer made to St Sebastian against the mortality
125
The sins of the times
126
The failings of the clergy
127
Divine disapproval of tournaments
130
Indecent clothing as a cause of the 134849 epidemic
131
The disobedience of children
134
The Sermon of Reason
135
The sins of the English
137
Be watchful
143
Pilgrimage to Merevale 1361
148
A wholesome medicine against the plague
149
The flagellants
150
The flagellants in England
153
Rumours of Antichrist
154
Millenarianism in Germany
155
Scientific explanations
158
Simon de Covino De Judicio Solis
163
The astrological causes of the plague Geoffrey de Meaux
167
The dangers of corrupted air
173
Earthquakes as the cause of plague
177
The transmission of plague
182
The treatise of John of Burgundy 1365
184
A fifteenthcentury treatise on the pestilence
193
Mandate of Clement VI concerning the Jews
221
Accusations of wellpoisoning against the poor
222
An accusation of wellpoisoning
223
CONSEQUENCES
227
The impact of the plague
248
The death of Princess Joan
250
The death of Abbot Michael of St Albans
252
Deaths among the nuns of Malling
253
Deaths in Walsham le Willows
256
The plague in Lancashire
262
A new burial ground in London
266
Burial problems in Worcester
268
A new burial ground in Newark
269
A shortage of priests to hear confession
271
A papal licence for extra ordinations
273
A failed chantry endowment
274
The deaths of officials
275
A wrong redressed
276
An immediate fall in revenue
277
Decayed rents
280
Unwillingness to take on vacant properties
283
The renegotiation of labour services
285
A reduction in labour services
286
The ordinance of labourers 18 June 1349
287
An episcopal response to the ordinance
290
Repercussions
292
An increase in value
295
Diminished vills
296
An early enclosure
299
Appropriations of parishes
300
An amalgamation of parishes
302
Amendments to a chantry foundation 1351
304
Effrenata
306
Unwillingness to take on parochial responsibilities
310
Simon Sudbury increases priests wages
311
The statute of labourers 1351
312
A case under the ordinance of labourers
317
Cases brought under the statute of labourers
318
A selection of cases from Lincolnshire
319
Cases before the justices in Kesteven 1371
321
Additions to the statute of labourers 1388
323
Difficulties in finding tenants
326
Rebellious serfs at Wawne
331
The sin of pride
339
Sumptuary legislation 1363
340
The unprepared death
342
The prepared death
344
It is good to think on death
347
Suggestions for further reading
353
Index
357
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References from web pages

ORB -- Plague / Black Death course syllabus
The Black Death: Ecological Crisis in Late Medieval Europe ... The Black Death. The Impact of the Fourteenth Century Plague, ed. Daniel Williman. ...
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HISTORY 345--THE BLACK DEATH/SPR
The human and ecological catastrophe of the Black Death in the middle of the fourteenth century was the most serious and devastating epidemiological crisis ...
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THE BLACK DEATH
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The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study ...
The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study, by Stuart J. Borsch (Austin: Texas up, 2005; pp. 195 . £32.95). ...
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The Black Death (research paper)? - Yahoo! Answers
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Fall 2002
The Black Death, moreover, occurred as Europe was experiencing what may very well have ... Samuel Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six ...
history.sfsu.edu/ Course/ syllabi/ sp2008/ rodriguezsp08/ Rodriguez-HIST640-Spr08.doc

JSTOR: The Black Death and the Transformation of the West.
DAVID HERLIHY, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Ed. Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1997. ...
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The Black Death: Epidemic Experiences in the Medieval World, 1347-1350
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The Black Death: bubonic plague
On this day in history in 1348, The Black Death arrived in Britain. The Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague that entered Melcombe Regis in 1348, ...
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Fireballs and Meteorites - SOTT.NET: New Light on the Black Death ...
New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection by dendrochronologist Mike Baillie of Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland. ...
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About the author (1994)

Rosemary Horrox is Fellow in History, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Bibliographic information

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TitleThe Black Death
Volume 1 of Manchester Medieval Sources
AuthorRosemay Horrox
EditorRosemay Horrox
Translated byRosemay Horrox
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherManchester University Press, 1994
ISBN0719034981, 9780719034985
Length364 pages
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