The BLACK DEATH

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The Black Death - pandemic of plague (q.v.), probably both bubonic and pneumonic, the first onset of which ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. – Encyclopedia Britannica

 

LC Subject Headings –          Black Death

 Plague (use for: Bubonic Plague)

Broader Terms –                    Epidemics

                                              Medicine, Medieval

                                              Yersinia infections

Narrower Terms -                 Plague Vaccines

- Rome – History – 2nd century

- Rome – History – 3rd century

LC Call Number Range            RC 171 – RC 179

 

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Electronic Books

 

The Black Death in the Middle East.

Michael W. Dols, 1977

 

The Cult of remembrance and the Black Death: six Renaissance cities in central Italy.

Samuelline Cohn, 1997

 

The Black Death in Egypt and England: a comparative study.

Stuart J. Borsch, 2005

 

Biology of plagues: evidence from historical populations.

Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, 2001

 

Black Death.

Sean Martin, 2001

 

The Barbary plague the Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

Marilyn Chase, 2003

 

Plague, population, and the English economy, 1348-1530.

John Hatcher, 1977

 

Plague and fire battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu’s Chinatown.

James C. Mohr, 2005

 

Plagues and poxes: the impact of human history on epidemic disease.

Alfred J. Bollet, 2004

 

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Hardcopy Books

 

Black Death: natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.

Robert Gottfried, 1983

RC178.G3 G67 1983

 

The Black Death: the impact of the fourteenth-century plague: papers of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance studies.1982

RC171.S8 1977

 

The Great Mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time.

John Kelly, 2006

RC172.K445 2006

 

A journal of the plague year written by a citizen who continued all the while in London.

Daniel Defoe, 1908

RC178 G

 

London in plague and fire, 1665-1666; selected source materials for college research papers.

Roland Bartel, 1957

DA681.B28

 

Piety and plague : from Byzantium to the Baroque.

2007

RC178.A1 P54 2007

 

Faith, reason, and the plague in seventeenth-century Tuscany.

Carlo M. Cipolla, 1979

RC178.I9 M66213 1979

 

Fighting the plague in seventeenth-century Italy.

Carlo M. Cipolla, 1981

RC178.I8 C56

 

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Electronic Maps

 

Spread of the Black Death, 1347-1354: Dublin, London, Paris, Rome

 

Atlas of Medieval Europe, 1997. “Spread of the Black Death”

 

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Electronic Dictionary

 

Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485, p.58

 

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Electronic Encyclopedia articles

 

From Daily Life Online - entry

Daily Life During the Black Death

 

From Encyclopedia Britannica –  entry

Black Death

 

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Scholarly Journal Articles (electronic)

 

 

After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labour in late-medieval western Europe.  Samuel Cohn.  Economic History Review; Aug. 2007

 

The Black Death spurred monarchies and city-states across much of Western Europe to formulate new wage and price legislation.  These legislative acts splintered in a multitude of directions that to date defy any obvious patterns of economic or political rationality.  A comparison of labour laws in England, France, Provence, Aragon, Castile, the Low Countries, and the city-states of Italy shows that these laws did not flow logically from new post-plague demographics and economics – the realities of the supply and demand for labour.  Instead, the new municipal and royal efforts to control labour and artisans’ prices emerged from fears of the greed and supposed new powers of subaltern classes and are better understood in the contexts of anxiety that sprung forth from the Black Death’s new horrors of mass mortality and destruction, resulting in social behaviour such as the flagellant movement and the persecution of Jews, Catalans, and beggers. [abstract from author]

 

 

English Agrarian Labor Productivity Rates Before the Black Death: A Case Study.  Eona Karakacili.  Journal of Economic History, Mar 2004.

It is often suggested that an agricultural revolution, currently defined as a rise in the output of arable workers, was a necessary precursor to industrialization and improved living standards. This article provides the first direct measurement of arable workers' average labor productivity for pre-industrial England. Rates are assessed for those production conditions that it is thought resulted in the lowest agrarian labor productivity rates in the pre-industrial period: c.1300-1348. The rates for English workers before the Black Death either surpassed or met the literature's best estimates for English workers until 1800, well after industrialization was underway  

 

England in the Aftermath of the Black Death.  John Hatcher.  Past and Present, No. 144 (Aug., 1994), pp. 3 – 35.

 

 

Maximum Wage-Laws for Priests after the Black Death, 1348-1381.  Bertha Haven Putnam.  The American Historical Review, v.21, no.1 (Oct., 1915).