“Black Death” through the Eyes of Contemporaries: An Attempt to Classify Written Sources
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2024

This article has analysed 124 written sources supplying information on the plague pandemic of 1346–1352. The sources have been classified into two large groups: narrative and documentary, with the types of texts of different origin specified within each group. Their analysis has demonstrated different degrees of informativeness and different nature of the accounts they contain. Narrative sources allow the one to reconstruct the geography and chronology of the Black Death, the reaction of fourtee