Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Maps, Figures and Tables x
4. Preface to the First Edition xv
5. Author’s Note on the New and Revised Edition xvii
6. Acknowledgements xxvii
7. Glossary xxviii
8. Part I What Was the Black Death?
9. 1 The Black Death 3
10. 2 The Black Death: The Epidemic Disaster that Made History 11
11. 3 The Return of the Black Death and the Response 16
12. 4 Transmission of Lethal Doses of Bacteria in Bubonic Plague 24
13. 5 Medical and Clinical Features of Bubonic Plague 38
14. 6 Basic Aspects of the Epidemiology of Bubonic Plague 46
15. 7 Historical Presence and Role of Black Rats in the Black Death (and Later Plague Epidemics) 58
16. 8 Seasonality of Bubonic Plague 87
17. Part II The Origin of Bubonic Plague and the History of Plague before the Black Death
18. 9 A Short History of Plague before the Black Death 97
19. Part III The Outbreak and Spread of the Black Death
20. 10 The Original Outbreak and Early Spread of the Black Death in the Lands of the Golden Horde 137
21. 11 Ships and Sailing Rates: The Importance of Ships in the Spread of the Black Death 153
22. 12 The Caucasus, Asia Minor, the Middle East and North Africa 160
23. 13 Mediterranean Europe: The Establishment of Epicentres of Spread of the Black Death in Greece, Italy and France 176
24. 14 The Balkan Countries and North-Eastern Italy: The Role of Venetian Galleys in the Spread of the Black Death on the Eastern Coast of the Adriatic Sea to Venice 197
25. 15 The Iberian Peninsula: The Spanish Kingdoms, the Kingdom of Portugal, and the Kingdom of Granada 201
26. 16 Italy 233
27. 17 France 259
28. 18 Belgium 304
29. 19 Switzerland 314
30. 20 Britain 325
31. 21 Ireland 390
32. 22 Norway 401
33. 23 Denmark 456
34. 24 Sweden 471
35. 25 The Netherlands 496
36. 26 Austria 504
37. 27 Hungary 512
38. 28 Germany and the State of the Order of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia and the Baltic Countries) 515
39. 29 Bohemia 576
40. 30 Poland 585
41. 31 Russia 604
42. 32 Some Countries or Regions that Escaped the Black Death 616
43. 33 Patterns of Conquest, Dynamics of Spread 620
44. 34 The Black Death Established a Plague Reservoir among Black Rats, and the Realm of the Second Plague Pandemic 638
45. Part IV Mortality in the Black Death
46. 35 The Medieval Demographic System 647
47. 36 Structures of Medieval Demography and the Demography of Historical Plague Studies 663
48. 37 Spain 684
49. 38 Italy 698
50. 39 France and the County of Savoy 731
51. 40 Belgium 769
52. 41 Germany 774
53. 42 England 791
54. 43 How Many People Died in the Black Death? 869
55. 44 The Inverse Correlation between Mortality Rate and Population Density: Why the Black Death Could Kill Around 60% of Europe’s Population 877
56. Part V The Black Death: A Turning Point in History?
57. 45 The Black Death: A Turning Point in History? 889
58. Bibliography 899
59. Index 975