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Book Title
The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Re
ISBN
9780340706473
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe
Item Height
234mm
Author
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Item Width
156mm
Subject
Medicine, History
Item Weight
506g
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account that the Black Death was almost any disease other than the rat-based bubonic plague whose bacillus was discovered in 1894. Since the late nineteenth century, the rat and flea have stood wrongly accused as the agents of transmission and historians and scientists have uncritically imposed the epidemiology of modern plague on the past. Unshackled from this misconception, The Black Death Transformed turns to its subject afresh, using sources spread across a huge geographical tract, from Lisbon to Uzbekistan, Sicily to Scotland: more than 40,000 death documents (from last wills and testaments to the earliest surviving burial records), over 400 chronicles, 250 plague tracts, 50 saints' lives, merchant letters, and much more. These sources confirm the terror of the medieval plague, the rapidity of its spread (unlike modern plague), and the utter despondency left in the wake of its first strike. But they also point to significant differences between medieval and modern plague, none more significant than the ability of humans to acquire natural immunity to the former but not the latter.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9780340706473
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Author
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Publication Name
The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, History
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
506g

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Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
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United Kingdom

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