The Black Death Transformed
Subtitle: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe (Arnold Publication)
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
Published: March 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780340706473
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of medicine; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History: World; History; History - General History; British Isles; Europe; Health Care Delivery; Medieval; World - General; History / Medieval
Description: This volume offers alternative conclusions about the cultural and psychological reactions to the plague, why it led more often to Renaissance optimism than to widespread despair as so often concluded.