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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Mark Bailey This article critiques the debate over the extent to which labor shortages caused by the Black Death and subsequent epidemics empowered women economically, and whether this had significant implications for overall demographic behavior and long‐term economic performance. Some historians...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 457–491.
Published: 01 September 2024
... historiographical debates related to the total size of the English population before and after the Black Death. It argues that the population size of England on the eve of the Black Death was higher than often argued, and that the impact of the pestis secunda was harsher than often assumed. The evidence suggests...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Julianne Werlin In England, the period from the late Middle Ages through early modernity was bookended by demographic change. On one edge, there was the Black Death and subsequent plague pandemics, which halved the population, reshaping English society in their wake. On the other...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of economic opportunity on women’s family formation decisions have centered on developments after the Black Death. Specifically, labor shortages allowed young women to gain skills, take jobs that had previously been exclusively male, and so earn hitherto undreamed-of sums of money. In this favorable...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 175–188.
Published: 01 January 2022
... by the fourteenth-century French knight Geoffroi de Charny, a poem on the experience of knighthood, accompanied by the first ever edition of the French poem followed by a prose translation by Nigel Bryant.] Aberth, John. Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague . Lanham, Md...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 225–245.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Museum, 2010. xiv, 98 pp.; 38 color
and 9 black-and-white illus. $25.00. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the
J. Paul Getty Museum in 2010.]
Seeman Erik R. Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492 –
1800. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 125–151.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Philosophy, ed. Peter Distelzweig,
Benjamin Goldberg, and Evan Ragland (Dordrecht, Neth.: Springer, 2016).
8 On the idea of anatomical rationality in the late Middle Ages, see Roger French,
“Anatomical Rationality,” in Medicine From the Black Death to the French Disease
(Aldershot...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
...: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe . Histories of Economic Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2023. xi, 374 pp., 5 maps. Hardcover, ebook. Einbinder, Susan L. After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration among Iberian Jews . The Middle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 January 2022
... Consider, for example, an anonymous Middle English lyric that meditates on three of the most tumultuous historical catastrophes of the mid-to-late fourteenth century: the Black Death, the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, and a 1382 earthquake. 14 The first two of these crises are now well known; the third...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 269–305.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Coelos praemisit inter
Choros Virginum regnaturam, quae pro nostris reatibus velit & valeat intercedere
penes eum.” As translated in Rosemary Horrox, ed., The Black Death (Manches-
ter: Manchester University Press, For the original text, see Foedera, ed.
Thomas Rymer, vols...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 621–644.
Published: 01 September 2007
....: Yale University Press in associa-
tion with the Open University, 2007. 352 pp.; 200 color illus. Paper $35.00.
Steinhoff, Judith B.Sienese Painting after the Black Death: Artistic Plural-
ism, Politics, and the New Art Market. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2006. xiv, 264 pp.; 90 figs., 12...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 639–656.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., vol. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xvi, 447 pp.; 115 figs.
$194.00.
Kissane, Alan. Civic Community in Late Medieval Lincoln: Urban Society
and Economy in the Age of the Black Death, 1289 – 1409. Woodbridge, Suf-
folk: Boydell Press, 2017. x, 325 pp.; 9 figs., 9 maps, 28 tables. $99.00.
Lantschner...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 157–182.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of the Country House in Seventeenth-Century
England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. viii, 232 pp.; 77 black-
and-white and 30 color illus. $45.00.
Daniell, Christopher. Death and Burial in Medieval England, 1066 –1550.
London: Routledge, (1997) 1998. ix, 242 pp...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 353–378.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., Peter, and Joseph Zeigler, eds. Religion and Medicine in the Middle
Ages. York Studies in Medieval Theology, vol. 3. Woodbridge, Suffolk:
Boydell Press for the York Medieval Press, Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of York, 2001. xvi, 253 pp. $90.00.
Cohn, Samuel K., Jr. The Black Death...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (1): 163–195.
Published: 01 January 2007
.... Historicizing readings of the Decameron
tend to contextualize it in the Black Death of 1348 and, more broadly, “the
mercantile world of fourteenth-century Tuscany.”2 Yet as is well-known,
Boccaccio spent a formative part of his youth in Angevin Naples: “with-
out Boccaccio’s experience of Naples...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 183–197.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of
Shakespeare. Edited by Robert Hudson. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B.
Eerdmans Publishing, 2017. vi, 166 pp. Paper $17.99. [A verse prayerbook
composed by the Elizabethan playwright Thomas Dekker during the time
of the Black Death in London.]
Di Sabatino, Luca, ed. Le Roman de Thèbes: Manuscrit A (BnF...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 589–610.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Europe (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Uni-
versity Press, 1997); Roger French, Jon Arrizabalaga, Andrew Cunningham, and Luis
García-Ballester, eds., Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease (Aldershot,
Hampshire: Ashgate, 1998); and Arrizabalaga, “The Changing Identity of the French...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative
Study. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xii, 195 pp.; 1 map, 43 line
drawings, 34 tables. $50.00.
Bovey, Alixe. Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health.
London: Sam Fogg, 2005. 64 pp.; 180 color plates. Paper $35.00...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of their rationality and their speech. 18 It remains for us to consider one more relevant rhetorical strategy in literature of the 1381 Revolt. After the Black Death there was an increased fear that England's laborers, servants, and journeymen might band together in associations to demand wage increases...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 611–632.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... Boccaccio’s Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renais-
sance Society. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot,
Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 205 pp.; 18 illus. $94.95.
French, Katherine L. The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion
after the Black Death. The Middle Ages Series...
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