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)

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)

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)

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)

A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft...(展开全部)

A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft...(展开全部)

One of Jacques Derrida’s richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of the relationship between life and death, undertaking multi-disciplinary analyses of a range of topics, including philosophy, linguist...(展开全部)