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  • Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death

    Common Themes and Regional Variations

    Modifié par Ben Dodds, Richard Britnell ...
    Collections Livre 6 - Studies in Regional and Local History
    With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems—such as depopulation and social conflict—with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research, this compilation demonstrates how these general problems were solved within ... En savoir plus

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  • Myths and Memories of the Black Death

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    This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the ... En savoir plus

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