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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Black Death"”.
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Cultural and Intellectual Responses to the Black Death
… was threatened with the arrival of the Black Death in 1347. Chapter one details the correlation between the spread of the plague and the location of the first universities. It also examines the expansion of the university system throughout the continent in the wake of the plague. The …
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Innately American, Black America’s Inheritance: A Rhetorical Analysis of Black Death & Identity
<p>In 2015, Baltimore city erupted after the death of Freddie Carlos Gray. He was a 25-year-old who was forcibly placed into the back of a police van and after riding in the van, sustained several injuries that resulted in his death. After the video footage was shown to the public, a tension …
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New virulence mechanisms in Yersinia pestis, the plague (Black Death)-causing bacterium: A re-emerging and bioterror pathogen
Yersinia pestis evolved from Y. pseudotuberculosis to become the causative agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. Y. pestis is also a category A select agent based on its potential use as a biological weapon. Currently, there is no vaccine licensed in the United States for use against Y. pestis so …
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Plague mortality and medieval demography: an osteological analysis of Black Death mass graves and attritional cemeteries from 7-16th century England and Wales
… were killed by plague. This epidemic, the Black Death, marked the start of the Second Plague Pandemic whereby plague outbreaks occurred repeatedly until the mid-17th century. Most osteological studies concerning medieval plague epidemiology focus on skeletons within mass graves, however …
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Climate Change and the Great Plague Pandemics of History: Causal Link between Global Climate Fluctuations and Yersinia Pestis Contagion?
… outbreaks of history, Justinian's Plague and the Black Death were responsible for the deaths of over one hundred million individuals across Eurasia and Africa. Both occurrences of the plague coincided with climatic shifts that are well documented by both literary and physical evidence. This thesis …
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
… imagery and cultural signifiers related to the Black Death in <em>The Pardoner’s Tale </em>to illuminate the Pardoner’s anti-Judaic storytelling techniques, which support his argument about how Christians should behave. Building on prior scholarship establishing the anti-Judaism of <em>The …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
… examines the attitudes to and commemoration of death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration …
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Neighborhood Mutual Aid Groups and Spaces of Deviant Care
… aid groups play in foreclosing or furthering Black survival. Building off the work of scholars of care and deviance (Joan Tronto, Dorothy Roberts, Ren Yo Hwang, and Cathy Cohen), this thesis contributes to both fields by inquiring about the places where deviant care is practiced. In this …
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Plague in the Graeco-Roman world, 430 B.C.-A.D. 600
… in the ancient world. Most major studies on the Black Death have concerned themselves with the great pandemics of the Middle Ages and none (to my knowledge), have systematically examined the ancient records for earlier evidence of the disease. The time period chosen for this study, from the …
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Life in Medieval Cambridge: an isotopic analysis of diet and mobility
… changes, particularly those associated with the Black Death of 1348-50, would have significantly affected food production and procurement in England and that dramatic population reduction may have resulted in changes in population replacement and diversity. However, it is not fully understood to …
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The archives mixtape: an education in (un)making Black deaths
… is usually framed as critical for saving Black youth. From beyond their passing, dead Black youth call for a critical stance on US educational institutions. This study adopts this critical stance. Such a critical stance allows me to ask: What do educational institutions, and their …
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An intersection of climate, history and landscape use: 3000 years of central Italian environmental change
… result of population decline resulting from the Black Death and a shift to cooler/wetter climate. Thirty modern pollen samples and paired surveys of the surrounding vegetation were used to characterize land cover-pollen relationships and aide in the interpretation of the fossil pollen record. A …
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Agreement, Information and Time in Multiagent Systems
… for the GEVS -- that due to casualties from the Black Death the linguistic composition of upper class England changed to incorporate individuals with different pronunciations. Together, these three contributions move us closer to forming a general theory of agreement.
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A palaeolimnological study of the anthropogenic impact on dissolved organic carbon in South Swedish lakes
… which can probably be attributed to the Black Death pandemic. A transition from traditional to modern land use following the industrial revolution took place during the past century, and a concurrent shift in most of the proxy records at around AD 1900 suggests a marked change in external …
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Iconoclasm, Protestant Aesthetics, and the Meaning of Making in Early Modern England, 1550–1600
… and religious ordeal on the continent since the Black Death. Reformation England was no exception, as our exploration of figures like William Tyndale, Thomas Cranmer, John Calvin, John Jewel and William Perkins will demonstrate. By teasing out tensions in the post-Reformation debates surrounding …
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The Auditing and Management of the Clare Estate under Elizabeth de Burgh, 1317-60
This thesis explains how medieval estates managed the local officials they employed to run their manor farms. These estates employed auditors and gave them the power to penalise local farm managers for overspending and missing productivity targets. The key finding is the sheer number of times these …
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Taking the war to Scotland and France : the supply and transportation of English armies by sea, 1320-60
… systems from 1337, and the effects the Black Death had on the availability of shipping. Furthermore, it will be shown that by examining the maritime participation, alongside the land based operations, in campaigns such as the siege of Calais in 1347 new interpretations can be put forward …
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Manorial Officeholding in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, 1300-1600
This thesis investigates the role and identity of manorial officers, individuals drawn from a lord’s tenants who were vital in administering his manor court and directly-farmed lands. It analyses officeholding from a social and political standpoint, examining the role of officers in governing …
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The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360
Abstract The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360 The topic of this dissertation is the gentry of Lancashire in the years from 1298 to 1361. It is a prosopographical study involving a limited number of prominent families, selected on the basis of status, tenure and …
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