THE BLACK DEATH:  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

HISTORY 345 (PROF. DAMERON)/SPRING 2005

(Not all entries listed below are in the St. Michael’s College Library; if not in library or online databases, order through Interlibrary Loan)

Primary Sources

John Aberth, The Black Death:  The Great Mortality of 1348-1350 (A Brief History with Documents) (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005).

Rosemary Horrox, ed. And trans., The Black Death The Black Death (Manchester and New York:  Manchester University Press, 1994).

Secondary Sources

John Aberth, From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages (Routledge 2001)

Philippe Ariès, The Hour of Our Death.  Trans.  Helen Weaver (New York:  Oxford, 1991).

John Arrizabalaga, et al, Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease (Ashgate 1998).

Bassett, Steven, ed.  Death in Towns (Leicester 1992)

Ole Jorgen Benedictow, Plague in the Late Medieval Nordic Countries (1992).

Paul Binski, Medieval Death:  Ritual and Representation (Ithaca:  Cornell, 1996).

Christine Boeckl, Images of Plague and Pestilence:  Iconography and Iconology (Kirksville, Missouri:  Truman State, 2000)

William Bowsky, The Black Death: A Turning Point in History? (New York, 1971).

-----.  “The Impact of the Black Death Upon the Sienese Government and Society,” Speculum 39 (1) January 1964, pp. 1-34.

Caroline Bynum, “Disease and Death in the Middle Ages,” in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 9 (1985):  97-102

Last Things: Death and the Apocalyse in the Middle Ages ed. Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman (Penn Press 1999).

The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease (Cambridge)

Ann Campbell, The Black Death and Men of Learning (Reprint, New York:  AMS Press, 1966).

Bruce Campbell, ed.  Before the Black Death:  Studies in the Crisis of the Early Fourteenth Century (Manchester, 1991).

Norman Cantor.  In the Wake of the Plague (Free Press 2001)

Ann Carmichael, “Infection, Hidden Hunger, and History,” in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14, 2 (1983).

-----, Plague and Poor in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1986).

Élizabeth Carpentier, Une ville devant la peste:  Orvieto et la peste noire de 1348 (Paris:  SEVPEN, 1962).

Samuel Kline Cohn, “The Black Death:  End of a Paradigm,” The American Historica Review 107 (2002):  703-38.

-----.  The Black Death Transformed (Oxford 2002)

-----.  Creating the Florentine State:  Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434 (Cambridge 1999).

-----.  The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death:  Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins, 1992).

-----.  Death and Property in Siena (1988).

George G. Coulton, The Black Death (London, 1929)

William Courtenay, “The Black Death and English Higher Education,” Speculum 45 (1980):  695-714.

Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism:  The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1986).

William Dohar,  The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).

Michael Dols, “The Comparative Communal Responses to the Black Death in Muslim and Christian Societies,” Viator 5 (1974):  269-87.

-----.  The Black Death in the Middle East (Princeton 1977).

Christopher Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages:  The People of Britain 850-1520 (Yale 2002).

Anna Foa.  The Jews of Europe after the Black Death.  Trans. Andrea Grover (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2000).

Roger French, Medicine Before Science:  The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Cambridge)

Roger French and Jon Arrizabalaga, eds., Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease (Brookfield:  Ashgate, 1998).

Francis Gasquet, The Black Death of 1348 and 1349 (London, 1897; reprint New York:  AMS Press, 1977).

L. Genicot, “Crisis:  from the Middle Ages to Modern Times”, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vol. 1, ed. M. Postan, 2^nd edition.

Robert Gottfried, The Black Death:  Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (New York:  Free Press, 1983).

Frantisek Graus, Pest, Geisler, Judenmorde:  Das 14 Jahnhundert als Krisenzeit (Goettingen, 1987).

Monica H. Green, Women’s Healthcare in the Medieval West (Ashgate 2000)

Richard Francis Gyug, The Diocese of Barcelona during the Black Death (Toronto:  Pontificial Institute, 1994).

John Hatcher, “England in the Aftermath of the Black Death,” Past and Present 144 (August 1994), pp. 3-35

John Henderson, “The Black Death in Florence:  Medical and Communal Responses.”  In Death in Towns:  Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, 100-1600 (edited by Stephen Bassett) (London:  Leicester University Press, 1992).

-----.  “Epidemics in Renaissance Florence,” in Maladies et société (xii-xviii siècles), ed. Bulst and R. Delort (1989).

David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West (Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1997)

-----.  Medieval and Renaissance Pistoia (Yale 1967).

Johann Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1996).  Some prefer the following translation:  The Waning of the Middle Ages. Trans. F. Hopman (London:  Edward Arnold, 1999; reprint of 1924 edition).

Gavin Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism (Berkeley:  University of California, 1990).

-----.  History, Religion, and Antisemitism (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1990).

Robert Lerner, “The Black Death and Western European Eschatological Mentalities,” in The Black Death, ed. D. Williman (1982).

Louise Marshall, “Manipulating the Sacred:  Image and Plague in Renaissance Italy,” Renaissance Quarterly 3 (1994):  485-532.

Mavis Mate.  Daughters, Wives, and Widows after the Black Death:  Women in Sussex, 1350-1535 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1998).

Michael McCormick, Origins of the European Economy:  Communications and Commerce, AD 300-900 (Cambridge 2001).

William McNeill, Plagues and Peoples (New York:  Ancor Books, Doublday 1976).

Christine Meek, ed.  Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (Four Courts Press, 2000)

Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death (1951).

David Nicholas, Urban Europe (Palgrave).

David Nirenberg.  Communities of Violence:  Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton 1996).

Mark Ormrod and Philip Lindley, eds.  The Black Death in England (Stamford:  Paul Watkins, 1996).

Robert Palmer, English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381 (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1993).

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani.  The Regulation of Evil:  Social and Cultural Attitudes to Epidemics in the Late Middle Ages (Florence, 1998)

Katherine Park, Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence (Princeton 1985).

Joseph Polzer, "Aspects of the Fourteenth Century Iconography of Death and the Plague," in The Black Death.  The Impact of the Fourteenth Century Plague, ed. Daniel Williman (Binghamton, N. Y.:  SUNY, 1982), pp. 108-129. 

Larry Poos, A Rural Society After the Black Death:  Essex 1350-1525 (Cambridge 1991).

Terence Ranger and Paul Slack, eds., Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Cambridge 1992).

J. F. D. Shrewsbury, A History of the Bubonic Plague in the British Isles (Cambridge 1970).

Nancy Siriasi,  Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine (Chicago 1990).

Kenneth Stow.  Alienated Minority:  The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe (Cambridge:  Harvard, 1992).

Joan Thirsk, Alternative Agriculture.  A History from the Black Death to the Present Day. (Oxford 1997)

Gordon Twigg, The Black Death:  A Biological Appraisal  (London:  Batsford, 1984).

Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History (1998).

Daniel Williman, ed.  The Black Death and the Impact of the Fourteenth Century Plague, (Binghamton, New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies,  1982).

Philip Ziegler, The Black Death (1969, reprinted 2000).

Hans Zinsser,  Rats, Lice, and History:  A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues (1934; reprinted 1969).