Communities and Crisis: Bologna During the Black Death Hardcover - 2009
by Shona Kelly Wray
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Bologna is well known for its powerful university and notariate of the thirteenth century, but the fourteenth-century city is less studied. This work redresses the imbalance in scholarship by examining social and economic life at mid-fourteenth century, particularly during the epidemic of plague, the Black Death of 1348. Arguing against medieval chroniclers' accounts of massive social, political, and religious breakdown, this examination of the immediate experience of the epidemic, based on notarial records--including over a thousand testaments--demonstrates resilience during the crisis. The notarial record reveals the activities and decisions of large numbers of individuals and families in the city and provides a reconstruction of the behavior of clergy, medical practitioners, government and neighborhood officials, and notaries during the epidemic.
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- Title Communities and Crisis: Bologna During the Black Death
- Author Shona Kelly Wray
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Date 2009-06
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9789004176348 / 9004176349
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.5 x 0.9 in (24.38 x 16.51 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Black Death - Social aspects - Italy -, Notaries - Italy - Bologna - History - To
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009012906
- Dewey Decimal Code 614.573
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- Scitech Book News, 12/01/2009, Page 88
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