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Books on: plague medieval

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Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague

Book by Judith M. Bennett; Oxford University Press, 1989

Subjects:

England--Rural Conditions--Case Studies, Sex Role--England--History--Case Studies, Women--England--History--Case Studies, Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Case Studies

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and Carolly Erickson, The Medieval Vision New York, 1976...Rural Households Before the Plague 1. See especially the depiction of the medieval family and household in Lawrence...how historians have fit the medieval family into their arguments...
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Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology

Book by Christine M. Boeckl; Truman State University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Plague In Art, Plague In Literature

Collections: Entire Library

...1959. Encyclo?edia of Plague and Pestilence. Edited by...1995. Fleming, S. J. Plague: The Medieval Scourge. Archaeology 39...Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. New York: The Free...1983. Gregg, Charles. Plagues: The Shocking Story of a...
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Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present

Book by D. Ann Herring, Alan C. Swedlund; Berg, 2010

Subjects:

Environmentally Induced Diseases, Epidemics--History, Famines--History, Plague--History

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...yellow fever virus. Science 71: 367 369. Theilmann, John, and Frances Cate. 2007. A plague of plagues: The problem of plague diagnosis in medieval England. Journal of Inter disciplinary History 37 (3): 371 393. Thieren, Michel. 2005...
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Publick as Private, Which Happened in London during the Last Great Visitation in 1665

Book by Daniel Defoe, Louis Landa; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Fiction, London (England)--History--17th Century--Fiction, Plague--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...post-mortem examination of a plague victim was well known, asserted...conjunction of planets as a cause of plague; this view was inherited by...contemporaries from ancient and medieval times. At the time of the...thought which ascribed the plague to the corruption of the air...
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Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

Book by James C. Mohr; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaii)--History--19th Century, Fires--Hawaii--Honolulu--History--19th Century, Plague--Hawaii--Honolulu--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...densely populated section of Honolulu burned itself out. By evening the hollow facade of Kaumakapili Church loomed like a medieval ruin over roughly thirty-eight acres of ashen desolation. The area looked as if nothing but the church had ever been there...

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Journal Articles on: plague medieval

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Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague, Medical History

Journal article by Dionysios Stathakopoulos; Medical History, Vol. 54, 2010

Collections: History, Entire Library

...strong case in taking medieval descriptions seriously...authors diagnosed as plague with particular emphasis...Wall0e states that the medieval plagues and the current disease...identification between medieval and current plagues. This is both constructive...archaeological research into the plague with special focus...
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The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body

Journal article by Elana Gomel; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000

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Apocalyptic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Epidemics--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Plague in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...rhetoric echoes medieval images of the...Londons The Scarlet Plague, and the pervasive...reversal of the medieval iconography of the plague, the danse macabre...resurrecting medieval nightmares in...themselves from the plague-stricken body...
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Plagues, Healers and Patients in Early Modern Europe

Journal article by William Eamon; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999

Subjects:

Epidemics--History, Historical research--Bibliography, Plague--History, Yersinia infections--History

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Plagues, healers and patients in...enormous historical literature. Plagues were a constant presence in the lives of medieval and early modern people...1976), concluded that plague struck somewhere in Europe...succeeding epidemics of the late medieval and early modern periods...
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English Plague and New World Promise(*)

Journal article by Rebecca Totaro; Utopian Studies, Vol. 10, 1999

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Bacon, Francis (Philosopher)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cavendish, Margaret--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mather, Cotton--Criticism, interpretation, etc., More, Thomas, Saint--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plague--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Utopias in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of pride, "parent of all plagues," in Utopia makes clear...verdict on Englands health: plague and the greatest sin of cupiditas...and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times...Manipulating the Sacred: Image and Plague in Renaissance Italy." Renaissance...1995. Pollitzer, Robert. Plague. World Health Organization...Ernest L. "Butchering in Medieval London." Speculum 8.3...
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Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800

Journal article by Louise Marshall; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...new insights on Baroque plague imagery in major Italian...Reading the Body of a Plague Saint: Narrative Altarpieces...and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and...closely linked to the plague due to his ministry during...St. Rosalie, a local medieval hermit who was catapulted...

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Magazine Articles on: plague medieval

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Moral Rorschachs: '1984' and 'The Plague' after Half a Century

Magazine article by David L. Kirp, Andrew Koehler, Jaime Rossi; The Nation, Vol. 266, May 4, 1998

Subjects:

1984 (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, The Plague (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

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...are what our nightmares are made of. Plagues and People In 1948 memories of Nazi terror were vivid, and The Plague contains scenes that could have been...Its like Albert Camus said in `The Plague: `Plagues and wars always afflict us but they...to "bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people, so that some memorial...done them might endure." In "When Plagues End," a New York Times Magazine essay...
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Girls Growing Up in Later Medieval England

Magazine article by Jeremy Goldberg; History Today, Vol. 45, June 1995

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Children--History, Girls--History, Middle Ages--Historiography, Social history--Medieval, 500-1500

Collections: History, Entire Library

...questions about the nature of later medieval English society and the experiences...servants are found before the plague and continue to be found even...distinctive feature of late medieval English, and indeed north...Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England Oxford University Press...
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Violence and the Law in Medieval England: How Dangerous Was Life in the Middle Ages? Sean McGlynn Gets to Grips with the Level of Violent Crime, and the Sometimes Cruel Justice Meted out to Offenders

Magazine article by Sean Mcglynn; History Today, Vol. 58, April 2008

Subjects:

Administration of criminal justice--History, British history, to 1066, Criminal justice, Administration of--History, Medieval history, Violence

Collections: History, Entire Library

...McGlynn ILLUSTRATION OMITTED The medieval world has an understandable...the Butcher of the Balkans of medieval savagery. A common perception...succumb to war, famine and plague, this neither inured people...often come to characterize the medieval world. This was most clearly...
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Educating the Aristocracy in Late Medieval England

Magazine article by Jonathan Hughes; History Today, Vol. 49, February 1999

Subjects:

Civilization, Medieval--15th century, Education--England

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...Deputy Lieutenant of Ireland, had died of plague in 1408) and it was clear that he was...Outlooks, in C. Harper-Bill, ed., Medieval Knighthood IV (Boydell, 1990); N...B. McFarlane, The Nobility of Later Medieval England (OUP, 1973); J. Hoeppner...
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Destruction of Babri Mosque Just One Symptom of India's Plague of Problems

Magazine article by M.m. Ali; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XI, January 31, 1993

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India, International, International relations

Collections: Entire Library

...Babri Mosque Just One Symptom of Indias Plague of Problems by M.m. Ali Destruction of Babri Mosque Just One Symptom of Indias Plague of Problems The destruction of the Babri...internal conflicts between its unrelenting medieval value system and the irresistible demands...

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Newspaper Articles on: plague medieval

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My London; Actor Eddie Redmayne Steals Medieval Socks, Paces Islington's Canals and Worries about the Plague Pits of World's End

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 29, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Actor Eddie Redmayne Steals Medieval Socks, Paces Islingtons Canals and Worries about the Plague Pits of Worlds End. Byline...too afraid to dig up a plague pit there. My dad may...drawer with Elizabethan and medieval socks from whatever job...
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Rats 'Not to Blame' for Spread of Black Death; Plague Was Really Passed on by People, Says Historian

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 19, 2011

Subjects:

Historians, Plague, Sloane, Barney

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...for Spread of Black Death; Plague Was Really Passed on by People...been an outbreak of bubonic plague caused by bacteria carried...person to person in crowded medieval cities, Dr Sloane said. His...bubonic plague. GODS PUNISHMENT Medieval doctors believed the Black...
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Sean of the Dead; Bean Shines in Plague Chiller

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), June 13, 2010

Subjects:

Cooling systems, HVAC industry, Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of the Dead; Bean Shines in Plague Chiller. Byline: Conor Nolan...the Black Death and as the plague decimates all in its path...hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. And there are...reality of plague-ridden medieval England. So there is a fair...
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Revealed: Ancient Clues That Tell How Black Death Could Return to Kill Us All; A Television Documentary Will Claim This Week That the 'Plague' Which Killed Millions Was Actually a Virus That We Would Be Just as Powerless to Fight Today

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 10, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...victims who developed the plague boils had more than...groin. Yet not a single medieval source points to the...of place for late-medieval boils was on the neck...in the 17th Century plagues in London, Naples...Cohn is Professor of Medieval History at the University...
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The Black Plague and Its Descendants

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 13, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Black Plague and Its Descendants...Asia, many of the plagues threatening us today...the story of how this plague bacillus would transform...population. "The medieval plague is the second...people, descendants of medieval rat catchers, work...born after the first plague. Other plagues would follow, but...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: plague medieval

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William of Occam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...struggle with Pope John. He is thought to have died in the black plague that swept Europe in the middle of the 14th cent. Occams teachings mark an important break with previous medieval philosophy, especially with the Aristotelian realism of St...
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Italy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and the temporal power of the popes. Medieval Italy In the divisions (9th cent...Compared to the Black Death, the plague that ravaged Italy in 1348, the local...invasions is listed under Rome . For the medieval period, see D. P. Waley, The Italian...
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Petrarch

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Laura and Colonna died of the plague, and in the next years Petrarch...the conflict he felt between medieval asceticism and individual expression...Yet in his poetry he ignored medieval courtly conventions and defined...portrait of Laura he surpassed the medieval picture of woman as a spiritual...
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Dance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...The Development of Dance in Europe In medieval Europe the repeated outbreaks of dance...usually associated with epidemics of bubonic plague, are reflected in the allegory of the...enlightened and convivial courts. Some medieval dances, such as the volta, precursor...
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Villein

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...peasant under the manorial system of medieval Western Europe. The term applies especially...to be called villein. The localism of medieval economy has made a general definition...labor dues. The Black Death of 1349 (see plague ), by greatly reducing the population...

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