Chronology The Black Death: 1347-1730 At Medical School At the Doctor's Office At Home with the Plague At the Churh and Churchyard In the BIshop's Palace and Monastery At the Pest House At City Hall On the Steets and Roads of Europe At the Booksellers and the Theatre In the Village and on the Manor In the Medieval Muslim World The Plague's Last Stand in Europe Bibliography Index
Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down.
JOSEPH P. BYRNE is a European historian and Associate Professor of Honors at Belmont University, Nashville, TN. He has conducted research and published articles on a wide variety of subjects, from Roman catacombs to American urbanization, though his area of expertise is Italy in the era of the Black Death. He is the author of The Black Death (Greenwood, 2004) and Daily Life during the Black Death (Greenwood, 2006). He is currently serving as editor for The Encyclopedia of Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic (Greenwood, projected 2008).
Daily Life During the Black Death provides a comprehensive
introduction to many of the subjects surrounding the study of
premodern epidemics. In his opening introduction Joseph Byrne
offers a concise outline of the issues confronting historians of
the plague and one of the clearest summations of the debate among
scholars about whether the Black Death was in fact bubonic plague
or some other disease, such as anthrax.
*Sixteenth Century Journal*
Reading about aspects of life in medieval Europe-religious,
economic, and political structures as well as food, clothing, and
crafts-puts a human face on the immense suffering caused by the
flesh-destroying pestilence known as the plague, or Black Death.
This volume expertly describes people of the Middle Ages under
enormous strain to maintain some semblance of ordinary life in the
face of terrible fear and adversity. Background notes and excerpts
from primary-source documents are included.
*Curriculum Connections School Library Journal*
Readers who come to Byrne's book with a vague notion of some bad
sickness spreading across Europe during the Middle Ages will put it
down with a full awareness of the horror of the flesh-destroying
pestilence of the Plague, or King Death….Both books expertly
portray the lives of peoples under enormous strain to maintain a
semblance of the normalcy implied by the term daily life. Each
volume comes with a full complement of strong scholarship,
including extensive notes, bibliographies, chronologies,
illustrations, and excerpts from original sources. The prose and
general composition suggest a laudable and consistently high level
of editing. These volumes are both recommended for teens with
strong reading skills and a background in history. (Reviewed with
Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through
Nineteenth-Century America)
*School Library Journal*
Known as the Black Death, the bubonic plague pandemic that ravaged
the Medieval Muslim and Christian worlds affected individuals at
all levels of society. This text for middle school and high school
students and general readers provides an overview of daily life
during these perilous times. Twelve chapters look at the impact of
the plague on people's activities in such settings as the doctor's
office, the home, city hall, and on the roads.
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