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The Black Death
by Ziegler, Philip
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Harmondsworth, England
Penguin, 1970
. 331 p.
, Donation Ex Libris Proinsias Mac Cana. | History and edition First published: London : Collins, 1969. | Review Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death claimed the lives of over one-third of the population of Europe. Having traced the course from Asia to the West, the author looks at the havoc it left in its wake. He includes chapters on the state of the period's medicine, the position of the church and the broader social and economic repercussions. A poignant tale, made all the more powerful for being told clearly, and without histrionics. (Kirkus UK) | Review The story of the Black Death - the great plague that swept over, and decimated, Europe in the fourteenth century - is one that, to a large extent, eludes the reader of English. The works of Mr. Coulton and of Cardinal Gasquet are outdated, and the sole authoritative general work has been G. Sticker's teutonically thorough and multivoluminar Die Pest - an opus which can be approached only when armed with adequate patience and more than adequate German. It is Mr. Ziegler's intention to provide a popular account. That he does not succeed is not due to any defect in scholarship or to any opacity of style, but rather to an inadequate perspective. Like most English writers on the Middle Ages, he tends to view England as the focal point of the medieval period; a view which, however satisfying to the British ego, is quite without foundation in fact. In this particular case, it has resulted in a predictable, though curious, imbalance of treatment. The course of the Black Death in France, Italy and Germany - the centers of medieval civilization, and therefore the countries in which the horrible plague most affected the direction of Western civilization - is dismissed almost summarily, while chapter after chapter is devoted to a detailed description of its progress through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The book therefore presents a distorted picture of the plague as a whole, and, while it may be useful to the British reader, it is only of peripheral interest to the American. (Kirkus Reviews)
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The comparative history of urban origins in non-Roman Europe : Ireland, Wales, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia from the ninth to the thirteenth century / edited by H.B. Clarke and Anngret Simms
by Clarke, Howard B.
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Oxford
B.A.R., 1985
. 2 pts. (xxxi, 748 p.)
, Donation 30224 and 30225 ex libris Proinsias Mac Cana | 30224 signed: "For Professor Proinsias Mac Cana with gratitude from Anngret Simms, September, 1985, U.C.D.". | Comparitive Urban Origins - title on spine
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La spiritualité du Moyen Âge occidental : VIIIe-XIIIe siècle
by Vauchez, André
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Paris
Éditions de Seuil, 1994
. 212 p.
, Donation Ex Libris Proinsias Mac Cana. | History and edition Originally published: Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1975. | History and edition "La présente édition, entièrement revue et mise à jour, comporte un chapitre inédit sur le XIIIe siècle."--T.p. verso. | Series Series volume number from spine.
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The European Folktale : Form and Nature
by Lüthi, Max
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Philadelphia
Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982
. xxv , 173 p.
, Translation of: Das Europäische Volksmärchen. | Donation Ex libris Proinsias Mac Cana. Item 30942/33406.
| Signed by Proinsias Mac Cana.
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