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The black death /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byrne, Joseph Patrick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Series:Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world.
Subjects:
Black Death > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Chronology
  • Overview: plague in the middle ages
  • The black death and modern medicine
  • The black death and medieval medicine
  • Effects of the black death on European society
  • Pychosocial reactions to the black death
  • European art and the black death
  • Individual and civic responses in Cairo and Florence
  • Epilogue: The end of the black death and its continuing fascination
  • Biographies: Abu Abdullah ibn Battuta
  • Charles IV
  • Clement VI
  • Francesco di Marco Datini da Prato
  • Galen of Pergamum
  • Gentile da Foligno
  • Lisad-ad Din ibn al-Khatib
  • Francesco Petrarch
  • Alexandre Emile John Yersin
  • Primary documents: The description of the pestilence : from the Historiarum (after 1355)
  • "Wer wil nu wissen das" (c.1349-55)
  • Plague Tract (1348)
  • Compendium de epidemia, Book 2 (1348)
  • "A diet and doctrine for the pestilence" (fifteenth century)
  • The treatise on the pestilence in Italian : Chapter 2 (c. 1447)
  • Last testament of Marco Datini of Prato, Italy, June 1, 1348
  • "Risal̄ah al-Nabaʼ ʻan al-Wabaʼ" : an essay on the report of the pestilence (1348)
  • Anonymous poem in the Chronicle of Damascus, 1389-97
  • "Disputation betwixt the body and worms"
  • The jews of Strassburg, February 1349
  • A Florentine diary : December 1496 to February 1499.