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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"the Black Death"”.
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Cultural and Intellectual Responses to the Black Death
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the "Age of Translations," Western Europe endeavored to rise above the so-called cultural and intellectual "Dark Ages." That advancement was threatened with the arrival of the Black Death in 1347. Chapter one details the correlation between the spread of the …
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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
This thesis adopted a holistic approach, considering mass graves and attritional cemeteries, to explore the influence of plague mortality on the demography of medieval Britain. Between 1348-51AD, approximately half of the population of Britain were killed by plague. This epidemic, the Black Death, …
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Climate Change and the Great Plague Pandemics of History: Causal Link between Global Climate Fluctuations and Yersinia Pestis Contagion?
The two great bubonic plague 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 …
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
<p><em>The Pardoner’s Tale</em>, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s <em>Canterbury Tales</em>, is a fourteenth-century allegory against gluttony, told by a corrupt, gluttonous pardoner to the rest of the pilgrims on their way to St. Thomas Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. In the Pardoner’s initial …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
This study 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 …
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Plague in the Graeco-Roman world, 430 B.C.-A.D. 600
This dissertation concerns itself with the study of epidemics between 430 B.C. - A.D. 600, in an attempt to find positive evidence for the existence of bubonic plague in the ancient world. Most major studies on the Black Death have concerned themselves with the great pandemics of the Middle Ages …
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Life in Medieval Cambridge: an isotopic analysis of diet and mobility
… town and an important trade centre in the High and Late Medieval period (11th-16th century). Historical accounts and archaeological evidence indicate that the Late Medieval period was a tumultuous chapter in English history, with episodes of war, climate change, famine and plague. It is …
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An intersection of climate, history and landscape use: 3000 years of central Italian environmental change
Both climate change and historical events affect the environmental history of a place. Dis-entangling the two is challenging and requires independent reconstructions of climate and landscape change, as well as a thorough local historical narrative. Understanding the role climate and humans have …
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Agreement, Information and Time in Multiagent Systems
… problems are central in many areas, from the study of magnetism (Ising model), to understanding the diffusion of innovations (such as the diffusion of hybrid corn planting in Illinois), to modeling linguistic change. The thesis of this dissertation is that the ability for agents to …
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A palaeolimnological study of the anthropogenic impact on dissolved organic carbon in South Swedish lakes
During the past three decades, increases have been observed in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations and colour in the surface waters of lakes and rivers in parts of Europe and North America, raising concern about the effects on the quality of aquatic environments with consequences for …
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Iconoclasm, Protestant Aesthetics, and the Meaning of Making in Early Modern England, 1550–1600
This thesis is about making in post-Reformation England. Roughly covering the period between 1550 and 1600, it explores the English cultural contexts of Protestant and Calvinist discourses in the sixteenth century. But equally, it is a thesis about the *meaning* of making. Scholarship abounds on …
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Taking the war to Scotland and France : the supply and transportation of English armies by sea, 1320-60
This thesis will examine the maritime resources available to Edward II and Edward III. As the majority of the ships utilised by the kings of this period were requisitioned merchant vessels, the inner process of this operation of raising a fleet needs to be studied more closely. In addition, because …