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Death and Dying in the Middle Ages

Book by Edelgard E. DuBruck, Barbara I. Gusick; Peter Lang, 1999

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Art, Medieval, Civilization, Medieval, Death In Art, Death In Literature, Death--Religious Aspects--Christianity--History Of Doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Death--Social Aspects--History, Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...raising of Samuel by the Witch of Endor not only proved disastrous to Saul but came to plague generations of Christian theologians who, throughout the early Middle Ages, took a variety of positions on the incident. The episode brought into question...
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A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

Book by F. Donald Logan; Routledge, 2002

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Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...In human terms no other catastrophe in the Middle Ages can come close to matching the plague of 1347-50, known to history as the Black...way, but there can be no debating that the middle of the fourteenth century witnessed a phenomenon...
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Reform and Renewal in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Studies in Honor of Louis Pascoe

Book by Thomas M. Izbicki, Christopher M. Bellitto; Brill, 2000

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Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Church History--Modern Period, 1500-, Reformation, Religious Thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Religious Thought--Modern Period, 1500-

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...also be found in the late Middle Ages when the Churchs institutional...circumstances? Famine, plague, a series of civil wars...thought at work in the late Middle Ages which lent urgency...and figure of the late Middle Ages. What an examination...
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The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485

Book by George Holmes; Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962

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Great Britain--History--Medieval Period, 1066-1485, Middle Ages

Collections: History, Entire Library

...surviving the earlier plague; and it recurred in...outbreak in London: plague had become one of the...of 1349 itself, the plagues caused a long decline...change was due to the plague; the great floods and...population statistics in the Middle Ages, but we can tell from...
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Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Book by Roger French; Cambridge University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Enlightenment--Europe, Medicine, Medieval--Europe, Medicine--Europe--History, Middle Ages--History, Physicians--Europe--History

Collections: Entire Library

...concept of a period of the middle ages, to be followed by a...chapter is concerned. The plague, later called the Black...next century, saw the plague as the dividing line between...So devastating was the plague that historians have looked...

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Journal Articles on: plague middle ages

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Missionary Saints of the High Middle Ages: Martyrdom, Popular Veneration, and Canonization

Journal article by James D. Ryan; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 90, 2004

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Catholic churches, Martyrs, Middle Ages, Missionaries, Religious missions, Roman Catholic Church, Saints

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Missionary Saints of the High Middle Ages: Martyrdom, Popular Veneration, and...such. His Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages cites some twenty-six men, women, and...for whom cults arose in the high Middle Ages. The sole trait they had in common was...
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Kathleen Ashley and Wim Husken, Eds. Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Journal article by Clifford Davidson; Comparative Drama, 2002

Subjects:

Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by...which has a beginning, middle, and end. Moving Subjects...Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance...dominant in the late Middle Ages throughout a large...effective against the plague, a disease thought to...
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Medicine before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Journal article by Mary Lindemann; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Learned Doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment...Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment...only began in the High Middle Ages, when the medicine...Tradition." Moreover, plague and the coming of the...
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The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance

Journal article by Diane Cole Ahl; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. by Diane Cole...The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Analecta Romana...Florence to the first outbreaks of plague in their city and the consequent...
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Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe

Journal article by Warren Treadgold; The Historian, Vol. 71, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Justinians Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of...Wickhams Framing the Early Middle Ages (Oxford, 2005) asserts that the plague was unimportant and the European...population growth rebounded when the plague stopped. Yet his book is so...

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Magazine Articles on: plague middle ages

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Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520

Magazine article by Nigel Saul; History Today, Vol. 52, November 2002

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Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520 (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Making a Living in the Middle Ages: the People of Britain...brought about by the plague, which explained the...convincing view of the late middle ages than Postans did...convincing on the later middle ages, it may be that...
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Africa's Other Deadly Plague: Malaria Kills One Child under Age 5 Every 30 Seconds. DDT Stops the Disease, but Environmentalists Still Oppose It, despite That Controlled Use Seems Harmless to Humans

Magazine article by Tom Carter; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, August 5, 2002

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DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, Infants--Mortality, Malaria--Prevention, Mosquitoes--Biological control

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Africas other deadly plague: malaria kills one child under age 5 every 30 seconds. DDT stops the disease, but environmentalists...40 years. While there is a growing educated elite and middle class familiar with cell phones and the Internet, 80 percent...
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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

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

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Dangerous Was Life in the Middle Ages? Sean McGlynn Gets to...common perception of the Middle Ages is that society was...However, although the Middle Ages frequently did succumb to war, famine and plague, this neither inured...
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Piety and Chivalry St George's Chapel Windsor: Nigel Saul Looks at a Building Which Embodied Much of England's Religious and Political Life in the Later Middle Ages, and Which Stages the Blessing the Prince of Wales's Marriage on April 8th

Magazine article by Nigel Saul; History Today, Vol. 55, April 2005

Subjects:

Chapels--Design and construction, Chapels--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...slowed by the effects of plague on the pool of manpower...afflicted the younger age group. Fewer and fewer...in response to the plague visitations, the dean...Windsor, in the Late Middle Ages (Windsor, 2001...Maurice Keen Heralds in the Age of Chivalry (March 1984...
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Maps That Changed the Shape of Great Britain: Geography and Maps Are as Inseparable as History and Dates. over the Past Year, Nicholas Crane Has Been Working on Mapman, an Eight-Part BBC2 Television Series That Explores 'Masterpiece Maps' of Britain. Part One of His Exclusive Feature for Geographical Takes Us from the Middle Ages to a 17th-Century Coastal Chart

Magazine article by Nicholas Crane; Geographical, Vol. 76, October 2004

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Cartography--History, Early maps--Analysis, Maps (Geography)--Design and construction, Maps (Geography)--History, Maps, Early--Analysis, Maps--Design and construction, Maps--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Geographical Takes Us from the Middle Ages to a 17th-Century Coastal...cartography occurred during the Middle Ages, when maps recorded remembered...Britain into the modern age. One of the most enigmatic...by incipient revolt and plague. One third of the population...

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Newspaper Articles on: plague middle ages

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Could We Survive Plague? the Black Death Decimated Europe in the Middle Ages and a New Epidemic Is Closer Than We Think. Mike Chapple Reports

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 1, 2004

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

...Decimated Europe in the Middle Ages and a New Epidemic Is...inflammatory words bubonic plague, that rapidly develops...contagious pneumonic plague, the action really kicks...firearms to prevent the plagues spread as video footage...Black Death during the Middle Ages. Weeks of research...
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Return of the Black Death; IN THE MIDDLE AGES IT KILLED 23M PEOPLE IN EUROPE & ASIA..BUT ARE WE ABOUT TO SEE THE

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 24, 2004

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

...Black Death; IN THE MIDDLE AGES IT KILLED 23M PEOPLE...million people in the middle ages, could be lying...last known outbreak of plague occurred over three centuries...a leading expert on plagues, played down the claims...million people in the middle ages
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Knights in Broad Daylight Medieval Society, MCC Explore Middle Ages for Education

Newspaper article by Emily Krone; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 3, 2005

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

...Society, MCC Explore Middle Ages for Education. by Emily...everything medieval but the plague - filled McHenry County...The idealization of the Middle Ages is part of our culture...the fair Kingdom of the Middle. The Society of Creative...
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In the Middle Ages People Lived in Mud Huts with Rough Mating on the Floor ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 24, 2007

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

In the Middle Ages People Lived in Mud Huts...KING Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery. The wife...with vermin. In the middle of the 18th-century...teeth are not cleaned, plague is the result. Parallel...heavybreeding. In the Middle Ages people lived in mud huts...
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A Chunk of History Saved by a Shovel; CITY CENTRE DIG UNEARTHS RELIGIOUS RELIC DATING BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 9, 2001

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

...UNEARTHS RELIGIOUS RELIC DATING BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES. Byline: BARBARA GOULDEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS excavating the middle of Coventry have found part of a mediaeval...where parish priests had died from the plague. Amazingly, the fragment of highly...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: plague middle ages

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Rat

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...spread throughout the world, mostly on board ships. The black rat was common in Europe in the Middle Ages and was responsible for the spreading of plague. It has since been largely displaced in cooler regions by the brown rat, which reached Europe...
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Medicine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...progress in anatomy. The Middle Ages With the destruction...centuries later in the great plague of the 14th cent. known...Black Death. During the Middle Ages certain monastic libraries...malaria, one of the oldest plagues of mankind. The invention...England, Francis Crick , age 35, and James Watson...
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Dance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...with epidemics of bubonic plague, are reflected in the...recent origin. During the Middle Ages, especially in France...The Dance through the Ages (1967); A. Chujoy and...Dancing from the Earliest Ages to Our Own Time (1898...
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London , City, England

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...mayor annually. The guilds of the Middle Ages gained control of civic affairs and...English civil war. In 1665, the great plague took some 75,000 lives. A great...Asian, West Indian, African, and Middle Eastern peoples account for much...
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Passion Play

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...PLAY genre of the miracle play that has survived from the Middle Ages into modern times. Its subject is the suffering, death...fulfillment, it is said, of a vow that was made during a plague. Passion plays have been revived in a few cities in W...

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