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After the Black Death - Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England (Hardcover)
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After the Black Death - Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England (Hardcover)
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The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst
pandemic in recorded history. After the Black Death offers a major
reinterpretation of its immediate impact and longer-term
consequences in England. After the Black Death reassesses the
established scholarship on the impact of plague on
fourteenth-century England and draws upon original research into
primary sources to offer a major re-interpretation of the subject.
It studies how the government reacted to the crisis, and how
communities adapted in its wake. It places the pandemic within the
wider context of extreme weather and epidemiological events, the
institutional framework of markets and serfdom, and the role of law
in reducing risks and conditioning behaviour. The government's
response to the Black Death is reconsidered in order to cast new
light on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. By 1400, the effects of
plague had resulted in major changes to the structure of society
and the economy, creating the pre-conditions for England's role in
the Little Divergence (whereby economic performance in parts of
north western Europe began to move decisively ahead of the rest of
the continent). After the Black Death explores in detail how a
major pandemic transformed society, and, in doing so, elevates the
third quarter of the fourteenth century from a little-understood
paradox to a critical period of profound and irreversible change in
English and global history.
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