After the Black Death av Mark (Professor of Late Medieval History Professor of Late Medieval History University of East Anglia UK) Bailey

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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 fo