Encyclopedia of the Black DeathThis 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. Encyclopedia of the Black Death is the first A–Z encyclopedia to cover the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors and effects in Europe and the Islamic world from 1347–1770. It also bookends the period with entries on Biblical plagues and the Plague of Justinian, as well as modern-era material regarding related topics, such as the work of Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, the Third Plague Pandemic of the mid-1800s, and plague in the United States. Unlike previous encyclopedic works about this subject that deal broadly with infectious disease and its social or historical contexts, including the author's own, this interdisciplinary work synthesizes much of the research on the plague and related medical history published in the last decade in accessible, compellingly written entries. Controversial subject areas such as whether "plague" was bubonic plague and the geographic source of plague are treated in a balanced and unbiased manner.
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Alchemy | 4 |
Allah | 5 |
Almanacs | 6 |
alManbiji Muhammad d 1383 | 7 |
alMaqrizi Muhammad alMakrizi 136341442 | 8 |
Jonson Ben 15721637 | 198 |
Kircher Athanasius 16021680 | 201 |
Koch Robert 18431910 | 202 |
Labourers Ordinance and Statute of | 205 |
Vernacular and Latin | 206 |
Lazarettos and Pest Houses | 208 |
Lazarus | 210 |
Leechbooks | 211 |
Amulets Talismans and Magic | 9 |
Anatomy and Dissection | 10 |
Animals | 12 |
Anticlericalism | 14 |
Apocalypse and Apocalypticism | 16 |
Apothecaries | 17 |
ArabicPersian Medicine and Practitioners | 19 |
Armenian Bole | 21 |
Arrows | 22 |
Ars moriendi The Art of Dying | 23 |
Art Effects of Plague on | 24 |
Articella | 27 |
Athens Plague of | 28 |
Avicenna Abu Ali alHusayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina 9801037 | 29 |
Barcelona Spain | 31 |
Bells | 32 |
Bertrand JeanBaptiste 16701752 | 33 |
Bible | 34 |
Biblical Plagues | 36 |
Bills of Health | 37 |
Bills of Mortality | 38 |
Bimaristans also Maristans | 40 |
Bishops and Popes | 41 |
Black Death 13471352 | 42 |
Debate over the Medical Nature of | 46 |
Origins and Early Spread | 48 |
Black Death Plague and Pestilence Terms | 52 |
Boccaccio Giovanni 13131375 | 53 |
Books of Hours | 54 |
Borromeo Federigo 15641631 | 55 |
Borromeo St Charles San Carlo 15381484 | 56 |
Broadsheets Broadsides and Pamphlets | 57 |
Bubonic Plague | 59 |
Bubonic Plague in North America | 61 |
Bullein William d 1576 | 63 |
Caffa Kaffa Feodosiya Ukraine | 65 |
Canutus Kanutus Plague Tract | 67 |
Cellites and Alexians | 69 |
Charlatans and Quacks | 70 |
Chauliac Guy de Guido de Cauliaco c 13001367 | 71 |
Children | 72 |
China | 74 |
Chinese Traditional Medicine | 75 |
Christ | 77 |
Chronicles and Annals | 79 |
Churches Plague | 80 |
Ciompi Revolt | 81 |
Clothing | 82 |
Compendium of Paris | 84 |
Consilia and Plague Tracts | 85 |
ConstantinopleIstanbul | 87 |
Contagion Theory | 88 |
Cordons Sanitaires | 90 |
Corpse Carriers | 92 |
Corpses | 94 |
Couvin Simon de Symon de Covino c 13201367 | 95 |
Dancing Mania | 99 |
Death Depictions of | 101 |
Defoe Daniel 16601731 | 103 |
Dekker Thomas 1570?1632 | 104 |
De Mertens Charles 17371788 | 105 |
The Islamic World | 106 |
Europe 13471400 | 108 |
Europe 14001500 | 110 |
Europe 15001722 | 111 |
Demography | 113 |
Demons Satan and the Devil | 115 |
Diagnosing Plague | 116 |
Dietary Regimens | 118 |
Disinfection and Fumigation | 120 |
DNA and the Second Plague Pandemic | 122 |
Doors | 123 |
Dublin Ireland | 125 |
Earthquakes | 127 |
Empirics | 130 |
Theories | 131 |
Epidemic and Pandemic | 134 |
Ex voto | 135 |
Eyam England 1666 | 137 |
Famine | 139 |
Fernel Jean c 14971558 | 140 |
Ficino Marsiglio 14331499 | 142 |
Flagellants | 143 |
Fleas | 145 |
Flight | 146 |
Florence Italy | 148 |
Fracastoro Girolamo 14781553 | 149 |
Friars Mendicants | 150 |
Funerals Catholic | 152 |
Funerals Muslim | 154 |
Galen and Galenism 129 CEc 216 | 157 |
Gentile da Foligno c 12751348 | 159 |
Germ Theory | 160 |
God the Father | 162 |
Gold | 163 |
Graunt John 16201674 | 165 |
Gregory the Great Pope r 590604 | 166 |
Grindal Edmund 15191583 | 167 |
Guilds | 168 |
Health Boards Magistracies and Commissions | 171 |
Heaven and Hell | 173 |
Henry VIII King of England 14911547 r 15091547 | 174 |
Hodges Nathaniel 16291688 | 175 |
Hospitals | 176 |
Humoral Theory | 178 |
Hundred Years War 13371453 | 179 |
I promessi sposi 1827 | 181 |
Ibn Battuta Abu Abdullah 13041368 | 182 |
Ibn Khatimah Abu Jafar Ahmed 1323?1369 | 183 |
Individualism and Individual Liberties | 184 |
Ingrassia Giovanni Filippo Gianfilippo 15101580 | 185 |
Islam and Medicine | 186 |
Islamic Civil Responses | 187 |
Islamic Religious Responses | 188 |
Islip Simon d 1366 | 189 |
Issyk Kul Kyrgystan | 190 |
Jacquerie | 191 |
Jewish Treasure Hoards | 192 |
Jews | 193 |
Jinn | 196 |
Job | 197 |
Li Muisis Gilles Le Muisit 1271721353 | 212 |
Little Ice Age | 213 |
Lollards | 214 |
London England | 215 |
London Great Plague of 16651666 | 217 |
Londons East Smithfield Plague Cemetery | 218 |
Lydgate John c 13701450 | 219 |
Malthusianism | 221 |
Marseille France | 222 |
Mass Graves and Plague Cemeteries | 223 |
Mead Richard 16731754 | 226 |
Medical Education 13001500 Medieval Europe | 227 |
Medical Education 15001700 Early Modern Europe | 228 |
Medical Humanism | 230 |
Merchants | 231 |
Mercuriale Girolamo 15301606 | 233 |
Metaphors for Plague | 234 |
Miasma Theory | 235 |
Milan Italy | 236 |
Mongols | 237 |
Monks Nuns and Monasteries | 239 |
Moral Legislation | 240 |
Morality Literature Christian | 241 |
Morbidity Mortality and Virulence | 243 |
Moscow Russia | 245 |
Muhammad the Prophet 570632 | 246 |
Naples Italy | 249 |
NarwhalUnicorn Horn Powder | 250 |
Nashe Thomas 15671601 | 251 |
Notaries | 253 |
Nurses | 254 |
Paracelsus 14931541 and Paracelsianism | 257 |
Parets Miquel 16101661 | 258 |
Paris France | 259 |
Parish | 260 |
Pasteur Louis 18221895 | 261 |
Pastors Preachers and Ministers | 262 |
Peasants | 264 |
Peasants Revolt English | 266 |
Pepys Samuel 16331703 | 267 |
Petrarch Francesco 13041374 | 268 |
Physicians | 269 |
Physicians Court | 271 |
Physicians Town | 272 |
Pilgrims and Pilgrimage | 273 |
Plague in Europe 13601500 | 274 |
Plague in Europe 15001725 | 276 |
Plague Memorials | 279 |
Plague Orders and National Authorities | 280 |
Plague Saints | 281 |
Plague Stone | 282 |
Pneumonic Plague | 283 |
Poetry European | 284 |
Poetry Islamic | 285 |
Poisoning and Plague Spreading | 286 |
Poverty and Plague | 287 |
Prayer and Fasting | 289 |
Priests | 291 |
Printing | 293 |
Prisoners | 294 |
Processions | 295 |
Prophylaxes | 296 |
Prostitutes | 297 |
Public Health | 298 |
Public Sanitation | 300 |
Purgatives | 302 |
Purgatory | 303 |
Quarantine | 305 |
Rats and Other Plague Carriers | 307 |
Reformation and Protestantism | 308 |
Remedies External | 310 |
Remedies Internal | 311 |
Repopulation | 312 |
Rome Italy | 314 |
St Januarius San Gennaro d c 305 | 317 |
St Roche | 318 |
St Sebastian | 319 |
Scientific Revolution | 320 |
Searchers | 321 |
Septicemic Plague | 322 |
Servants Household | 323 |
Shakespeare William 15641616 | 324 |
Shutting In | 325 |
Signs of Plague | 327 |
Simond PaulLouis 18581947 | 328 |
Sin | 329 |
Social Construction of Disease | 330 |
Sumptuary Laws | 332 |
SurgeonsBarbers | 333 |
Sydenham Thomas 16251689 | 334 |
Syrups and Electuaries | 335 |
Taun | 337 |
Tears against the Plague | 338 |
Theriac and Mithridatum | 339 |
Third Plague Pandemic | 340 |
Thirty Years War 16181648 | 341 |
Three Living Meet Three Dead | 342 |
Toads | 343 |
Transi Tombs | 344 |
Triumph of Death | 345 |
Tumbrels | 346 |
Urine and Uroscopy | 347 |
Valesco de Tarenta d after 1426 | 349 |
Van Helmont Joan Baptista Johannes Jan 15791644 | 350 |
Venice Italy | 351 |
Vesalius Andreas 15141564 | 352 |
Vienna Austria | 353 |
Vinario Raimondo Chalmel de Magister Raimundus Chalmelli Chalin d after 1382 | 354 |
Virgin Soil Disease | 356 |
Wands | 359 |
Witches and Witchcraft | 360 |
Wither George 15881667 | 361 |
Yeoman Farmers and Gentry | 365 |
Yersin Alexandre 18631943 | 366 |
Yersinia pestis | 367 |
Zodiac Man | 369 |
Glossary | 371 |
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