Encyclopedia of the Black Death

Author Joseph P. Byrne

Publisher ABC-CLIO

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Author

Joseph P. Byrne

Publisher

ABC-CLIO

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Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9781598842548

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eBook

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9th Grade - College Senior

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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.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Entries by Broad Topic.
Introduction.
Timeline.
1: Abandonment.
2: AIDS and Plague.
3: Al-Asqalani, Ibn Hajar (1372–1449).
4: Alchemy.
5: Allah.
6: Almanacs.
7: Al-Manbiji, Muhammad (d. 1383).
8: Al-Maqrizi, Muhammad (Al-Makrizi; 1363/4–1442).
9: Amulets, Talismans, and Magic.
10: Anatomy and Dissection.
11: Animals.
12: Anticlericalism.
13: Anti–Semitism and Anti–Jewish Violence Before the Black Death.
14: Apocalypse and Apocalypticism.
15: Apothecaries.
16: Arabic-Persian Medicine and Practitioners.
17: Armenian Bole.
18: Armies.
19: Arrows.
20: Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying).
21: Art, Effects of Plague on.
22: Articella.
23: Astrology.
24: Athens, Plague of.
25: Avicenna (Abu Ali Al-Husayn Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Sina; 980–1037).
26: Barcelona, Spain.
27: Bells.
28: Bertrand, Jean-Baptiste (1670–1752).
29: Bezoar Stones.
30: Bible.
31: Biblical Plagues.
32: Bills of Health.
33: Bills of Mortality.
34: Bimaristans (Also Maristans).
35: Bishops and Popes.
36: Black Death (1347–1352).
37: Black Death: Debate Over the Medical Nature of.
38: Black Death: Origins and Early Spread.
39: Black Death, Plague, and Pestilence (Terms).
40: Bleeding/Phlebotomy.
41: Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–1375).
42: Books of Hours.
43: Borromeo, Federigo (1564–1631).
44: Borromeo, St. Charles (San Carlo; 1538–1484).
45: Boyle, Robert (1627–1691).
46: Broadsheets, Broadsides, and Pamphlets.
47: Bubonic Plague.
48: Bubonic Plague in North America.
49: Bullein, William (d. 1576).
50: Caffa (Kaffa, Feodosiya), Ukraine.
51: Cairo, Egypt.
52: Canutus (Kanutus) Plague Tract.
53: Causes of Plague: Historical Theories.
54: Cellites and Alexians.
55: Charlatans and Quacks.
56: Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340/43–1400).
57: Chauliac, Guy de (Guido de Cauliaco; c. 1300–1367).
58: Children.
59: China.
60: Chinese Traditional Medicine.
61: Christ.
62:
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