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The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account that the Black Death was almost any disease other than the rat-based bubonic plague whose bacillus was discovered in 1894. Since the late nineteenth century, the rat and flea have stood wrongly accused as the agents of transmission and historians and scientists have uncritically imposed the epidemiology of modern plague on the past.
Unshackled from this misconception, The Black Death Transformed turns to its subject afresh, using sources spread across a huge geographical tract, from Lisbon to Uzbekistan, Sicily to Scotland.These sources confirm the terror of the medieval plague, the rapidity of its spread (unlike modern plague), and the utter despondency left in the wake of its first strike. But they also point to significant differences between medieval and modern plague, none more significant than the ability of humans to acquire natural immunity to the former but not the latter.
Over its first hundred years, adaptation to the new microbial plague enemy cam with striking speed and success. In place of despondency came a new sense of confidence. From God and the stars, contemporaries turned to cures and socially grounded explanations. And in this context the Renaissance found a foothold and climbed with assurance.Such a major cultural and psychological change centred, this study argues, on the particular character of the disease - the swiftness with which Europeans adapted to their new bacillus (whatever it might have been).
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Unshackled from this misconception, The Black Death Transformed turns to its subject afresh, using sources spread across a huge geographical tract, from Lisbon to Uzbekistan, Sicily to Scotland.These sources confirm the terror of the medieval plague, the rapidity of its spread (unlike modern plague), and the utter despondency left in the wake of its first strike. But they also point to significant differences between medieval and modern plague, none more significant than the ability of humans to acquire natural immunity to the former but not the latter.
Over its first hundred years, adaptation to the new microbial plague enemy cam with striking speed and success. In place of despondency came a new sense of confidence. From God and the stars, contemporaries turned to cures and socially grounded explanations. And in this context the Renaissance found a foothold and climbed with assurance.Such a major cultural and psychological change centred, this study argues, on the particular character of the disease - the swiftness with which Europeans adapted to their new bacillus (whatever it might have been).
This is a book without comparison. Cohn has successfully undertaken the formidable task of dealing with a major and controversial topic over a vast period of time and within a geographical area that stretches from England to India. Well-conceived, imaginative, and strongly argued, The Black Death Transformed is a definitive work on an important and much studied subject and will remain so for a long time. (William M. Bowsky, Professor Emeritus, University)
Finally, here is a book that examines original sources throughout Europe to challenge convincingly the age-old paradigm of the Black Death as bubonic plague. (Dr John Henderson, Wolfson College, Cambridge)
...delightfully readable. Conveys an ambitious and ultimately convincing argument in precise, often amusing prose. Cohn displays a combination of academic rigour and the ability to render the complex intriguing. (The Independent)
...a fascinating account. (New Scientist)
The most exciting book I have read (this year). (Eric Hobsbawn, History Magazine. 2003-01-10)
Finally, here is a book that examines original sources throughout Europe to challenge convincingly the age-old paradigm of the Black Death as bubonic plague. (Dr John Henderson, Wolfson College, Cambridge)
...delightfully readable. Conveys an ambitious and ultimately convincing argument in precise, often amusing prose. Cohn displays a combination of academic rigour and the ability to render the complex intriguing. (The Independent)
...a fascinating account. (New Scientist)
The most exciting book I have read (this year). (Eric Hobsbawn, History Magazine. 2003-01-10)
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- ÉditeurHodder Arnold
- Date d'édition2002
- ISBN 10 0340706465
- ISBN 13 9780340706466
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages336
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