The Black DeathRosemay Horrox From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 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 |
Plague regulations of Bernaḅ 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 |
Mandate of Clement VI concerning the Jews | 221 |
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 | 115 |
Edward III to the bishops 5 September 1349 | 117 |
Causes for gratitude | 118 |
Processions against the plague in 1361 | 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 |
Ordinances against the spread of plague Pistoia 1348 | 194 |
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 |
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