Encyclopedia of the Black Death

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This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors.

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Title Statements

Full title :Encyclopedia of the Black Death / Joseph P. Byrne.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):ABC-Clio
Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xxii, 429 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781598842531, 1598842536, 9781598842548, 1598842544
oclc:ocn729344530
LC Classification:RC172
Dewey Decimal:614.5/73203

5050 Abandonment -- AIDS and plague -- al-Asqalani, Ibn Haja (1372-1449) -- Alchemy -- Allah -- Almanacs -- al-Manbiji, Muhammad -- al-Maqrizi, Muhammad (al-Makrizi; 1363/4-1442) -- Amulets, Talismans, and magic -- Anatomy and dissection -- Animals -- Anticlericalism -- Anti-Semitism and Anti-Jewish violence before the Black Death -- Apocalypse and apocalypticism -- Apothecaries -- Arabic-Persian medicine and practitioners -- Armenian Bole -- Armies -- Arrows -- Ars moriendi (The art of dying) -- Art, Effects of plague on -- Articella -- Astrology -- Athens, Plague of -- Avicenna (Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina; 980-1037).

Barcelona, Spain -- Bells -- Bertrand, Jean Baptiste 1670-1752) -- Bezoar stones -- Bible -- Biblical plagues -- Bills of health -- Bills of mortality -- Bimaristans (also Maristans) -- Bishops and popes -- Black death (1347-1352) -- Black Death: debate over the medical nature of -- Black Death: origins and early spread -- Black Death, plague and pestilence (Terms) -- Bleeding/Phlebotomy -- Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) -- Books of hours -- Borromeo, Federigo (1564-1631) -- Borromeo St. Charles (San Carlo; 1538-1484) -- Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) -- …

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Black Death Black Death -- Encyclopedias Black Death -- Encyclopedias. -- History Disease Outbreaks -- history Encyclopedia Encyclopedias Encyclopédies Geschichte History Pest Peste noire -- Encyclopédies Peste noire -- Encyclopédies. -- Histoi… Plague -- history Wörterbuch