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After the Black Death : Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews /

The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. Nonetheless, its force varied across the continent, and so did the ways people responded to it. Surpris...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Einbinder, Susan L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Colección:The Middle Ages Series
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Before the Plague: Anti-Jewish Violence and the Pastoureaux
  • Chapter 2. emanuel ben Joseph: Trauma and the Commemorative lament
  • Chapter 3. Abraham Caslari: A Jewish Physician on the Plague
  • Chapter 4. stones of Memory: The Toledo epitaphs
  • Chapter 5. Bones and Poems: Perpetrators and Victims
  • Appendix. The Toledo Plague epitaphs: Translations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments