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The Black Death in the Middle East /
In the middle of the fourteenth century a devastating epidemic of plague, commonly known in European history as the "Black Death," swept over the Eurasian continent. This book, based principally on Arabic sources, establishes the means of transmission and the chronology of the plague pande...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
5354 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Maps
- I. Introduction
- II. Plague in the Middle East
- III. The Nature of Plague
- IV. Medieval Muslim Interpretations of Plague
- V. The Demographic Effects of Plague in Egypt and Syria
- VI. Urban Communal Behavior During the Black Death
- VII. The Economic Consequences of the Black Death
- VIII. Conclusions
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index