Material type: BookPublisher: London :MacMillan,1986Edition: 2nd. ed.Description: [224] p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0333415876.Subject(s): Black Death -- EuropeDDC classification: 614.57
Contents:
Introduction -- A natural history of plague -- The European environment, 1050-1347 -- The plague's beginnings -- The plague's progress -- The immediate consequences -- The stirrings of modern medicine -- Disease and the transformation of medieval Europe.
Robert S. Gottfried is Professor of History and Director of Medieval Studies at Rutgers University. Among his other books is "Epidemic Disease in Fifteenth Century England."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- A natural history of plague -- The European environment, 1050-1347 -- The plague's beginnings -- The plague's progress -- The immediate consequences -- The stirrings of modern medicine -- Disease and the transformation of medieval Europe.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 A Natural History of Plague
Chapter 2 The European Environment, 1050-1347
Chapter 3 The Plague's Beginnings
Chapter 4 The Plague's Progress
Chapter 5 The Immediate Consequences
Chapter 6 The Stirrings of Modern Medicine
Chapter 7 Disease and the Transformation of Medieval Europe