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Bezig met laden... The Black Death and the Transformation of the West (1997)door David Herlihy, Samuel Kline Cohn (Redacteur)
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The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history. In this compact book, David Herlihy makes bold yet subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about this disastrous period. As in a finely tuned detective story, he upturns intriguing bits of epidemiological evidence. And, looking beyond the view of the Black Death as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy sees in it the birth of technological advance as societies struggled to create labor-saving devices in the wake of population losses. New evidence for the plague's role in the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism demonstrates that this cataclysmic event marked a true turning point in history. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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He also hypothesizes that the plague mothered inventions, including the printing press, brought on a distrust of experts, doctors, and Jews, intensified the use of capital, the use of of Christian Saints' names, ended feudalism and ended medievalism. ( )