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OverviewBologna is well known for its powerful university and notariate of the thirteenth century, but the fourteenth-century city is less studied. This work redresses the imbalance in scholarship by examining social and economic life at mid-fourteenth century, particularly during the epidemic of plague, the Black Death of 1348. Arguing against medieval chroniclers' accounts of massive social, political, and religious breakdown, this examination of the immediate experience of the epidemic, based on notarial records--including over a thousand testaments--demonstrates resilience during the crisis. The notarial record reveals the activities and decisions of large numbers of individuals and families in the city and provides a reconstruction of the behavior of clergy, medical practitioners, government and neighborhood officials, and notaries during the epidemic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shona Kelly Wray , Shona Kelly Wray , Shona Kelly WrayPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 83 Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.681kg ISBN: 9789004176348ISBN 10: 9004176349 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 02 June 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables, Figures, and Maps A Note on Currency, Names and Titles Introduction 1. The Notarial Evidence: Testaments in the Libri Memoriali, Demaniale, and the Provvisori 2. Illuminating the Dark Century: Notarial Evidence on Bologna's Civic Life 3. Social Reactions of the Populace during the Black Death 4. Public Persons during the Black Death 5. Neighbourhood Activity during the Black Death 6. The Individual and the Family Conclusion Map of Bologna Map of Parishes of Bologna List PArisches for Map of Parishes of Bologna Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography General Index Index of Medieval Bolognese Individuals (1348)ReviewsAuthor InformationShona Kelly Wray, Ph.D. (1999) in History, University of Colorado at Boulder, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri--Kansas City. Her publications concern the experience of the Black Death and notarial culture in late medieval Bologna. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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