Les mortalités lilloises (1328-1369)

Aubry, Martine

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“…5 5 Aubry, ‘Mortalités lilloises’; and Berger, Nécrologe de la confrérie des jongleurs , pp. 174–80.…”

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After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labour in late‐medieval western Europe

Cohn

2006

The Economic History Review

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The Black Death spurred monarchies and city-states across much of Western Europe to formulate new wage and price legislation. These legislative acts splintered in a multitude of directions that to date defy any obvious patterns of economic or political rationality. A comparison of labour laws in England, France, Provence, Aragon, Castile, the Low Countries, and the city-states of Italy shows that these laws did not flow logically from new post-plague demographics and economics-the realities of the supply and demand for labour. Instead, the new municipal and royal efforts to control labour and artisans' prices emerged from fears of the greed and supposed new powers of subaltern classes and are better understood in the contexts of anxiety that sprung forth from the Black Death's new horrors of mass mortality and destruction, resulting in social behaviour such as the flagellant movement and the persecution of Jews, Catalans, and beggars. I ew syntheses of the Black Death appear yearly, but few of them explore the cultural, political, or economic consequences of the plague comparatively. Instead, perhaps taking their cue from contemporary chroniclers, historians continue to assume that the Black Death was a 'universal' catastrophe with 'universal' reactions and consequences across Europe. 1 But as debate about the social and economic impact of the Black Death between eastern and western Europe or France and England has highlighted, the social, economic, and psychological impact from more or less the same demographic collapse was not everywhere the same; regions might even react in ways that were diametrically opposed. 2 The Black Death and its successive waves, moreover, appear not to have hit all regions with the same ferocity and demographic consequences. A city such as Douai and its region in one of the most densely populated areas of Europe may not have borne 1 For a recent work that states this universal argument boldly, see Benedictow, Black Death . 2 See for instance, Aston and Philpin, eds., Brenner debate , and for differences in the economic consequences of the Black Death between the Middle East and Europe, Borsch, Black Death in Egypt and England . N

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“…5 5 Aubry, ‘Mortalités lilloises’; and Berger, Nécrologe de la confrérie des jongleurs , pp. 174–80.…”

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After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labour in late‐medieval western Europe

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2006

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The ‘light touch’ of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands: an urban trick?

Roosen

Curtis

2018

The Economic History Review

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Although the fanciful notion that the Black Death bypassed the Low Countries has long been rejected, nevertheless a persistent view remains that the Low Countries experienced only a 'light touch' of the plague when placed in a broader European perspective, and recovered quickly and fully. However, in this article an array of dispersed sources for the Southern Netherlands together with a new mortmain accounts database for Hainaut show that the Black Death was severe, perhaps no less severe than other parts of western Europe; that serious plagues continued throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; and that the Black Death and recurring plagues spread over vast territories-including the countryside. The previous conception of a 'light touch' of plague in the Low Countries was created by the overprivileging of particular urban sources, and a failure to account for the rapid replenishment of cities via inward migration, which obscured demographic decimation. We suggest that the population of the Low Countries may not have recovered faster than other parts of western Europe but instead experienced a greater degree of post-plague rural-urban migration.

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Duration of Urban Mortality for the 14th-Century Black Death Epidemic

Olea¹,

Christakos²

2005

Human Biology

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Les mortalités lilloises (1328-1369)

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After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labour in late‐medieval western Europe

After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labour in late‐medieval western Europe

The ‘light touch’ of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands: an urban trick?

Duration of Urban Mortality for the 14th-Century Black Death Epidemic

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