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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: Late Medieval States and Society
Contents
The "Calamitous" 14th Century
- WEB DALME: The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe [Harvard] [Internet Archive backup here]
A collaborative, cross-disciplinary project that seeks to increase our understanding of Europe’s material horizons during the later Middle Ages, an era when changing patterns of production and consumption altered the material world and transformed the relationship between people and things.
- A Malthusian Crisis?
- The Black Death
- Procopius: The Plague, 542, History of
the Wars, II.xxii-xxxiii:
Description of the onset of the earlier "plague of Justinian."
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron:
Introduction, on the Black Death, as is another
version. The entire Decameron is also available:
Volume I and Volume II. [At Project Gutenberg]
- Marchione di Coppo Stefani: The Florentine Chronicle: The Plague in Florence 1348
- Pistoia Plague Ordinances 1348
- Pistoia: Health Ordinances in a Time of Mortality trans. Jessica Goldberg, 11 May 1348
- Various Accounts of the Black Death 1347-49 [Was At Arizona, now Internet Archive]
Jean de Venette in Paris; Agnolo di Tura in Siena; Boccacio in Florence; Dene of Rochester; Fr Michael of Piazza; Matteo Villani
- The Black Death
and the Jews 1348-1349
Contains: The Confession of Agimet of Geneva, , October 20, 1349; Jacob von
Königshofen (1346-1420); Chonicle; The Epitaph of Asher aben Turiel,
Toledo, Spain, 1349
- Ibn Battuta (1304-1368/69): The Plague (Black Death) in Damascus 1348, from Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
- Alfonso XI of Castile (1311-1350): Alfonso XI and the Black Death: Three Sources, trans. Nicolás Agrait
Alfonso responded to the Black death with various statements, and later died of it himnself in 1350.
- Warfare
Ecclesiastical Disarray
- The Great Schism
- Conciliarism
- The Papal Response
Late Medieval Governments
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