Joseph P. Byrne, The Black Death (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) Greenwood Press | ISBN 0313324921 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 263 pages The Black Death, by Joseph Byrne, isolates the event of the epidemic of bubonic plague in 1347–52 as having had a signal impact on medieval Europe. It was, however, only the first of many related such episodes involving v...(展开全部)

From a leading expert, an original and compelling account of the Black Death's devastation on a small English village during the fourteenth century. In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, world-renowned scholar John Hatcher re-creates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as th...(展开全部)

Daily life in the age of the Black Death was anything but normal. During the second pandemic of bubonic plague, from 1348 to 1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by deadly epidemics. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to the whole social, political and economic structure. Theatres emptied, graveyards fill...(展开全部)

In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived—and died—during the Black Death (1345–50 AD), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly into those tumultuous years and ...(展开全部)

Daily life in the age of the Black Death was anything but normal. During the second pandemic of bubonic plague, from 1348 to 1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by deadly epidemics. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to the whole social, political and economic structure. Theatres emptied, graveyards fill...(展开全部)

This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.

A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only inf...(展开全部)

◎ 著者简介 弗兰克·M.斯诺登（Frank M. Snowden），耶鲁大学安德鲁·唐尼·奥里克历史与医学史荣休教授，专长领域为社会史、医学史，以及意大利近代史等。其著作包括《意大利南部的暴力和大庄园：1900—1922年的阿普利亚》（1984）、《1919—1922 年托斯卡纳的法西斯革命》（1989）、《霍乱时期的那不勒斯》（1995）、《征服疟疾：1900—1962年的意大利》（2006），以及《流行病与社会：从黑死病开始的瘟疫史》（2019）。《征服疟疾：1900—1962年的意大利》曾被美国历史协会授予“海伦与霍华德·R.马拉罗奖”，并荣获美国医学史协会颁发的韦尔奇奖章。 ◎ 译者简介 季珊珊，南京大学历史学院世界史硕士，曾赴台湾师范大学、剑桥大学交流访问，研究方向为近代英国医疗社会史，发表文章《欧洲最早的医学院——萨莱诺医学院的兴衰》，...(展开全部)

A fascinating work of detective history, "The Black Death" traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a b...(展开全部)