Economy and Society After the Black Death
Seminar and Essay Questions
- Is it feasible for historians to use the Black Death as a 'turning point' in European history or was it a catalyst for a latent social and cultural 'revolution'?
- How did the Black Death shape European ideas about religion and economics, social mobility and luxuries?
- Was the decline of serfdom in England driven more by the Black Death or by long-term economic trends?
Documents
Introductory Reading
Bolton, B., , in M. Ormrod and P. Lindley, eds, The Black Death in England (Stamford, 1996), pp. 17-78.
Cohn, Samuel K., Jr., The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe (London, 2003) []
Green, M., in the Medieval Globe, Vol. 1 (2014), pp.9-26.
Waley and Denley, , 90-111
Ziegler, Philip, The Black Death, 2nd ed. (Harmondsworth, 1998) [Chapters 1 and 15].
Ditrich, Hans, '' Mediterranean Historical Review 32 (2017), pp.25-39
e-resources
- ''. In Our Time. BBC Radio programme. Thursday, 22 May 2008.
- . In Our Time. BBC Radio programme. Thursday, 23 June 2011.
- Resources on the Black Death in relation to Boccaccio's Decameron.
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(Newberry Library) [A useful collection of sources and images]
Further Reading
Bowsky, William, The Black Death: A Turning Point in History? (New York, 1971)
Bridbury, A.R. , Economic Growth: England in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1962)
Brown, Judith, Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989), 761-80.
Campbell, Bruce (ed.), Before the Black Death (Manchester, 1991)
Cipolla, Carlo M., , Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 16 (1964), 519-24.
Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr., (ed. and trans.), Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe (Manchester, 2004)
Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr., '', Past and Present 196 (2007): 3-36.
Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr., The Black Death Transformed (2002).
Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr., 'The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death', in B. Gordon and P. Marshall eds, The place of the dead: death and remembrance in late medieval and early modern Europe (Cambridge, 2000), 17-43.
Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr., The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death : Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy, (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
Dyer, Christopher, Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, 1200-1520, rev. ed. (Cambridge, 1998)
Epstein, S.R., , Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 47 (1994), 459-82.
Goldthwaite, Richard A., Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy 1300-1600 (Baltimore and London, 1993)
Hatcher, J, , Past and Present 144 (1994), 3-35.
Hatcher, J, (London, 1977)
Herlihy, David, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, ed. Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1997)
Horrox, Rosemary (ed. and trans.), (Manchester, 1994) [A collection of documents]
Hunt, Edwin S., and Murray, James M., A History of 糖心TV in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 (Cambridge, 1999)
Jordan, William C., (Princeton, NJ, 1996)
Kershaw, Ian, , Past and Present 59 (1973), 3-50.
Le Roy Ladurie, E., Times of Feast, Times of Famine: A History of Climate since the Year 1000, trans. Barbara Bray (London, 1972)
Lopez, Robert S. et al. (eds. and trans.), Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World (New York, 1955; rept. 2001) [A collection of documents]
Lopez, Robert S., , in Anthony Molho (ed), Social and Economic Foundations of the Italian Renaissance (New York, 1969), pp. 95-116.
Lopez, Robert S., and Miskimin, Harry A., , Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 14 (1962), 408-26.
Lopez, Robert S., , Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 16 (1964), 525-27.
Meiss, Millard, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death (New York, 1964)
Nightingale, Pamela, 'England and the Economic Depression of the Mid-Fifteenth Century', Journal of European Economic History, 26:3 (1997), 631-56.
Platt, Colin, King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late Medieval England (London, 1996)
Twigg, Graham, The Black Death: A Biological Reappraisal (London, 1984)
Varlik, Nukhet, (Cambridge, 2015)
Ziegler, Philip, The Black Death, 2nd ed. (Harmondsworth, 1998)
