The ‘light touch’ of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands: an urban trick?
Abstract Although the fanciful notion that the Black Death bypassed the Low Countries has long been rejected, nevertheless a persistent view remains that the Low Countries experienced only a ‘light touch’ of the plague when placed in a broader European perspective, and recovered quickly and fully. However, in this article an array of dispersed sources for the Southern Netherlands together with a new mortmain accounts database for Hainaut show that the Black Death was severe, perhaps no less severe than other parts of western Europe; that serious plagues continued throughout the fourteenth and... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | The Economic History Review ; volume 72, issue 1, page 32-56 ; ISSN 0013-0117 1468-0289 |
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Wiley
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Schlagwörter: | Economics and Econometrics / History |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26851390 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12667 |