Black Death
Title | Black Death PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Porter |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 2018-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1445656868 |
The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the medieval Black Death of the 1340s to the Great Plagues of the seventeenth century.
The Black Death in London
Title | The Black Death in London PDF eBook |
Author | Barnie Sloane |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2011-05-02 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0752496395 |
The Black Death of 1348–49 may have killed more than 50% of the European population. This book examines the impact of this appalling disaster on England's most populous city, London. Using previously untapped documentary sources alongside archaeological evidence, a remarkably detailed picture emerges of the arrival, duration and public response to this epidemic and subsequent fourteenth-century outbreaks. Wills and civic and royal administration documents provide clear evidence of the speed and severity of the plague, of how victims, many named, made preparations for their heirs and families, and of the immediate social changes that the aftermath brought. The traditional story of the timing and arrival of the plague is challenged and the mortality rate is revised up to 50%–60% in the first outbreak, with a population decline of 40–45% across Edward III's reign. Overall, The Black Death in London provides as detailed a story as it is possible to tell of the impact of the plague on a major mediaeval English city.
A Journal of the Plague Year
Title | A Journal of the Plague Year PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1722 |
Genre | Fires |
ISBN |
The Black Death
Title | The Black Death PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Ziegler |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2009-04-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 006171898X |
A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third of Europe's people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history. Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler offers a critically acclaimed overview of this crucial epoch in a single masterly volume. The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.
The Black Death and Other Putrid Plagues of London
Title | The Black Death and Other Putrid Plagues of London PDF eBook |
Author | Natasha Narayan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Epidemics |
ISBN | 9781904153016 |
The Black Death & other putrid plagues
The Great Plague in London in 1665
Title | The Great Plague in London in 1665 PDF eBook |
Author | Walter George Bell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Thomson, George.
The Black Death Transformed
Title | The Black Death Transformed PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Kline Cohn |
Publisher | Hodder Arnold |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780340706466 |
The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. From a wide range of sources, this study argues that it was not the rat-based bubonic plague usually blamed, and considers its effect on European culture.