IsisCB Explore

Thesis ID: CBB001561274

The Paleodemography of the Black Death 1347--1351 (2006)

Pennsylvania State University
Wood, James
Publication date: 2006
Language: English

Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Advisor: Wood, James
Physical Details: 267 pp.

Outside Links

***** The Black Death of 1347-1351 has long been considered one of the most devastating epidemics in human history; it killed an estimated 30-50 percent of the European population and initiated profound social, economic, and demographic changes throughout the continent. Among other things, the Black Death has been credited with ending the medieval feudal system and exacerbating social conflict between the wealthy and poor. Because the Black Death had important consequences both culturally and demographically, it has fascinated researchers for decades, yet there are still important questions about the medieval epidemic that have remained unanswered. By comparing a Black Death cemetery to a pre-Black Death, normal mortality cemetery, this project seeks to determine how Black Death mortality was distributed by age and sex and whether the disease was selective with respect to frailty. This project incorporates a newly developed method of adult age-at- death estimation and a multistate model of morbidity and mortality. The results indicate that the Black Death differentially affected individuals with pre- existing health conditions. The Black Death, however, was not as strongly selective as was normal mortality. The epidemic was highly virulent and therefore killed otherwise healthy individuals who would have been at low risk of death under normal circumstances. However, the Black Death did not, as many have assumed, killed people indiscriminately. *****

...More

Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 70/01 (2009). Pub. no. AAT 3343674.

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB001561274

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Book Alberto Luongo; (2022)
La Peste Nera. Contagio, crisi e nuovi equilibri nell'Italia del Trecento (/p/isis/citation/CBB395814124/)

Article Hugh Willmott; Peter Townend; Diana Mahoney Swales; Hendrik Poinar; Katherine Eaton; Jennifer Klunk; (2020)
A Black Death mass grave at Thornton Abbey: the discovery and examination of a fourteenth-century rural catastrophe (/p/isis/citation/CBB496182916/)

Book Zlata Blazina Tomic; Vesna Blazina; (2015)
Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533 (/p/isis/citation/CBB456494737/)

Book Edoardo Pittalis; (2021)
La Serenissima e le epidemie. Scienza, fede e superstizione: come Venezia affrontò il nemico invisibile (/p/isis/citation/CBB615185893/)

Book Martin Marafioti; (2017)
Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition (/p/isis/citation/CBB984525452/)

Book Maria Paola Zanoboni; (2020)
La vita al tempo della peste. Misure restrittive, quarantena, crisi economica (/p/isis/citation/CBB068961007/)

Article Erkoreka, Anton; (2008)
Épidémies en Pays Basque: De la peste noire à la grippe espagnole (/p/isis/citation/CBB000933241/)

Book Costanza Geddes da Filicaia; Marco Geddes da Filicaia; (2015)
Peste: Il ‘flagello di Dio’ fra letteratura e scienza (/p/isis/citation/CBB178325117/)

Book Salvatore Speziale; (2016)
Il contagio del contagio: Circolazione di saperi e sfide bioetiche tra Africa ed Europa dalla Peste nera all'AIDS (/p/isis/citation/CBB784935133/)

Article Irma Naso; (2021)
Pandemie tra passato e presente. Assonanze o anticipazioni? (/p/isis/citation/CBB997024592/)

Book Byrne, Joseph Patrick; (2012)
Encyclopedia of the Black Death (/p/isis/citation/CBB001251684/)

Book Bourdelais, Patrice; (2006)
Epidemics Laid Low: A History of What Happened in Rich Countries (/p/isis/citation/CBB000772231/)

Book James Belich; (2022)
The World the Plague Made (/p/isis/citation/CBB769651418/)

Book Nutton, Vivian; (2008)
Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague (/p/isis/citation/CBB000932807/)

Book Nükhet Varlik; (2015)
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (/p/isis/citation/CBB948772983/)

Book John Aberth; (2021)
The Black Death : A new history of the great mortality in Europe, 1347-1500 (/p/isis/citation/CBB846522195/)

Book John Aberth; (2020)
Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague (/p/isis/citation/CBB323397658/)

Article Archambeau, Nicole; (2011)
Healing Options during the Plague: Survivor Stories from a Fourteenth-Century Canonization Inquest (/p/isis/citation/CBB001250086/)

Book Elisa Tinelli; (2024)
Storia letteraria delle malattie. La narrazione del contagio dal Medioevo all’Età Moderna (/p/isis/citation/CBB211165645/)

Book Giovanni Assereto; (2011)
«Per la comune salvezza dal morbo contagioso». I controlli di sanità nella Repubblica di Genova (/p/isis/citation/CBB730633252/)