The Black Death: a turning point in history?
By: Edited by William M. Bowsky.
Series: European problem studies
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; mul
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Black Death; Medicine, Medieval; Diseases and history
Table of contents: title: Plague in Florence: a literary description by G. Boccaccio.; title: Plague in Siena: an Italian chronicle, by A. di Tura del Grasso.; title: The chronicle of a French  cleric, by J. de Venette.; title: The plague and World War: parallels and comparisons,  by J. W. Thompson.; title: The Black Death as a major event in world history, by Y. Renouard.; title: The plague as a recurrent phenomenon, by É. Carpentier.; title: The plague deemphasized, by E. A. Kosminskii.; title: European crisis: the plague or moral decline? By R. Delatouche.; title: Malthusian pressure and population decline, by M. M. Postan.; title: Malthus denied, by D. Herlihy.; title: "Germany: the Flagellants and the persecution of the Jews," by P. Ziegler.; title: Germany: the Black Death and a structural revolution in socio-economic history, by F. Lütge.; title: France: a fiscal and constitutional crisis, by J. B. Henneman, Jr.; title: Spain: a temporary setback, by C. Verlinden.; title: England: a decisive turning point, by G. A. Holmes.; title: England: preplague population and prosperity, by J. C. Russell.; title: Orvieto: institutional stability and moral change, by É. Carpentier.; title: Siena: stability and dislocation, by W. M. Bowsky.; title: Egypt: crisis in a Muslim land, by A. L. Udovitch.; title: Suggested additional readings (p. 126-128)