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The black death / Joseph P. Byrne.
| Author/creator | Byrne, Joseph Patrick |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004. |
| Description | xxx, 231 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world. ^A593583 |
| Partial 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 -- |
| Partial contents | 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 -- |
| Partial contents | 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 an 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004043640 |
| ISBN | 0313324921 (alk. paper) |