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- catalog abstract ""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, merchants' letters and more. These sources confirm the terror of 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 crucial 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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12540825.
- catalog coverage "Europe Population History.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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, merchants' letters and more. These sources confirm the terror of 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 crucial 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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-301) and index.".
- catalog description "Pt. I. Middle Ages Confronts the Twentieth Century -- 1. Scientists square the circle -- 2. conquest of plague -- 3. Historians square the circle -- Pt. II. Black Death: Signs and Symptoms -- 4. Signs: chronicles, plague tracts, and saints' lives -- 5. Symptoms -- Pt. III. Black Death: Epidemiology -- 6. Chroniclers and doctors -- 7. Climate -- 8. Cycles and trends -- 9. Culture and psychology. App. I. Miraculous plague cures -- App. II. List of chronicles, annales, and calendars -- App. III. Plague tracts from Sudhoff.".
- catalog extent "x, 318 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0340706465".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Arnold ; New York : Co-published in the USA by Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe Population History.".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog subject "2002 M-153".
- catalog subject "614.494 21".
- catalog subject "Black Death Etiology.".
- catalog subject "Black Death Europe.".
- catalog subject "Plague Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Plague etiology Europe.".
- catalog subject "Plague history Europe.".
- catalog subject "RC178.A1 C63 2002".
- catalog subject "Virus Diseases Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Virus Diseases history Europe.".
- catalog subject "Virus diseases Europe History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "WC 11 GA1 C678b 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt. I. Middle Ages Confronts the Twentieth Century -- 1. Scientists square the circle -- 2. conquest of plague -- 3. Historians square the circle -- Pt. II. Black Death: Signs and Symptoms -- 4. Signs: chronicles, plague tracts, and saints' lives -- 5. Symptoms -- Pt. III. Black Death: Epidemiology -- 6. Chroniclers and doctors -- 7. Climate -- 8. Cycles and trends -- 9. Culture and psychology. App. I. Miraculous plague cures -- App. II. List of chronicles, annales, and calendars -- App. III. Plague tracts from Sudhoff.".
- catalog title "The black death transformed : disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.".
- catalog type "text".