Doctoring The Black Death

Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144222391X
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctoring the Black Death written by John Aberth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.

Author : Timothy Levi Biel
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781560060017
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Death written by Timothy Levi Biel and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.

Author : Tom McGowen
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531201992
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Death written by Tom McGowen and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1995 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Black Death, looks at the cause, and shows how it affected the lives of people living in the Middle Ages

Author : Phyllis Corzine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560062998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Death written by Phyllis Corzine and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the causes, effects, and legacy of the epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the fourteenth century.

Author : John M. Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560065425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life During the Black Death written by John M. Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the conditions and events that led to the terrible plague that devastated fourteenth-century Europe, as well as its impact on those who survived.

Author : James Day
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531182352
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Death written by James Day and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the origins, spread, and effects of the bubonic plague in fourteenth-century England and Europe, as well as the later discovery of its cause and cure.

Author : Lisa Kaborycha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100381669X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Italian Renaissance written by Lisa Kaborycha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian Renaissance was a period of intense cultural transformations when the ancient world was being rediscovered and a New World had been literally discovered. Between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries, traditional beliefs were being challenged as people across the Italian Peninsula explored new ways of thinking about religion, politics, and society and introduced startling innovations in the arts. This book contains more than hundred selections of primary sources—the historian’s raw material in the form of memoirs, letters, treatises, sermons, stories, poems, drawings, paintings, and sculpture. Here are eyewitness accounts of cold-blooded murders, lavish court pageants, the Sack of Rome, and the Black Death; first views of Michelangelo’s Sistine frescoes and glimpses of the surface of the moon through Galileo’s telescope. These sources bring the reader into direct contact with the creators of the great Renaissance works of art, literature, philosophy, and science, as well as lesser-known people, who in their own words express emotions of love, loss, and spiritual yearning. Selected to accompany and supplement A Short History of Renaissance Italy, the primary sources in this book make it an ideal course reader for students of history or art history. Yet this volume can be equally read well on its own; each selection is clearly introduced, annotated, and provided with references for further reading. These sources reach out to an audience beyond the classroom—the general reader, or the traveler to Italy—anyone curious to learn more about the Italian Renaissance will find themselves swept into conversation with these vibrant voices from the past.

Author : William M. Bowsky
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Death: a Turning Point in History? written by William M. Bowsky and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1971 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113472487X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Brink of the Apocalypse written by John Aberth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of York The later Middle Ages was a period of unparalleled chaos and misery -in the form of war, famine, plague, and death. At times it must have seemed like the end of the world was truly at hand. And yet, as John Aberth reveals in this lively work, late medieval Europeans' cultural assumptions uniquely equipped them to face up postively to the huge problems that they faced. Relying on rich literary, historical and material sources, the book brings this period and its beliefs and attitudes vividly to life. Taking his themes from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, John Aberth describes how the lives of ordinary people were transformed by a series of crises, including the Great Famine, the Black Death and the Hundred Years War. Yet he also shows how prayers, chronicles, poetry, and especially commemorative art reveal an optimistic people, whose belief in the apocalypse somehow gave them the ability to transcend the woes they faced on this earth. This second edition is brought fully up to date with recent scholarship, and the scope of the book is broadened to include many more examples from mainland Europe. The new edition features fully revised sections on famine, war, and plague, as well as a new epitaph. The book draws some bold new conclusions and raises important questions, which will be fascinating reading for all students and general readers with an interest in medieval history.

Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317496094
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting the Middle Ages written by John Aberth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome, the Viking invasions, the Crusades, the persecution of minorities, sexuality in the Middle Ages, women within medieval society, intellectual and environmental history, the Black Death, and, lastly, the waning of the Middle Ages. The historiography of the Middle Ages, a term in itself controversial amongst medieval historians, has been continuously debated and rewritten for centuries. In each chapter, John Aberth sets out key historiographical debates in an engaging and informative way, encouraging students to consider the process of writing about history and prompting them to ask questions even of already thoroughly debated subjects, such as why the Roman Empire fell, or what significance the Black Death had both in the late Middle Ages and beyond. Sparking discussion and inspiring examination of the past and its ongoing significance in modern life, Contesting the Middle Ages is essential reading for students of medieval history and historiography.