Philip Ziegler - The Black Death

• Singer, C. ‘A Review of the Medical Literature of the Dark Ages’, Proc. Roy. Soc. Med. ( Hist Med .), Vol. 10, Pt. 2, p. 107.

• Zinsser, H. Rats, Lice and History, London, 1935.

Innumerable studies exist dealing in whole or in part with the Black Death or its effects in specific towns or areas. Some of these, for instance Dr Carpentier’s study of Orvieto, are of the greatest importance; others contain little except an odd anecdote or two and some inaccurate statistics. All those cited below have contributed something of value to this book. The Victoria County Histories, though varying greatly in quality from county to county, are in general a source of much valuable material for England.

• Allison, K. J. ‘The Lost Villages of Norfolk’, Norf. Arch., Vol. XXXI, 1955, p. 118.

• Ballard, A. ‘The Manors of Witney, Brightwell and Downton’, Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, Vol. V, Oxford, 1916.

• Bartlett. J. N. ‘The Expansion and Decline of York in the Later Middle Ages’, Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd Ser., Vol. XII, 1959, p. 17.

• Bertrand, L. ‘Contribution à L’Étude de la Peste dans les Flandres’. Proc, 2nd. Int. Cong. Hist. Med., Evreux, 1922, p. 43.

• Beveridge, W. ‘Wages in the Winchester Manors’, Econ. Hist Rev., 1936–7, Vol. VII, p. 22.

• Beveridge, W. ‘Westminster Wages in the Manorial Era’, Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd Series, Vol. VIII, 1955, No. 1, p. 18.

• Billson, C. J. Mediaeval Leicester, Leicester, 1920.

• Boucher, C. E. ‘The Black Death in Bristol’, Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc., Vol. LX, 1938.

• Bowsky, W. M. ‘The Impact of the Black Death upon Sienese Government and Society’, Speculum, Vol. XXXIX, 1964, No. 1, p. 1.

• Brunetti. ‘Venezia durante la Peste’, Ateneo Veneto, 32, 1909.

• Buess, H. ‘Die Pest in Basel im 14 und 15 Jahrhundert’, Basel Jahrbuch, 1956.

• Carpentier, E.* Une Ville devant la Peste. Orvieto et la Peste Noire de 1348, Paris, 1962.

• Chiappelli, A.* ‘Gli Ordinamenti Sanitari del Comune de Pistoia contra la Peste de 1348’, Arch. Stor. Ital ., Ser . IV, Vol. XX, p. 3.

• Davenport, F. The Economic Development of a Norfolk Manor, 1086–1565, Cambridge, 1906.

• Dubled, H. ‘Aspects économiques de la vie de Strasbourg aux 13 eet 14 esiècles, Archives del’Église d’Alsace, N.S., VI, 1955, No. 1, p. 18.

• Dubled, H. ‘Conséquences économiques et sociales des “mortalitiés” du XIV esiècle essentiellement en Alsace’, Revue d’Hist. Écon. et Soc. Vol. XXXVII, 1959, No. 3, p. 273.

• Emery, R. ‘The Black Death of 1348 in Perpignan’, Speculum, Vol. XLII, 1967, No. 4, p. 611.

• Feiling, K. G. ‘An Essex Manor in the 14th Century’, Eng. Hist. Rev., Vol. XXVI, 1911, p. 333.

• Fisher, J. L. ‘The Black Death in Essex’, Essex Review, Vol. LII, 1943.

• Fletcher, J. M. ‘The Black Death in Dorset’, Dorset Nat. Hist. Ant Field Club., Vol. XLIII, 1922, p. 1.

• France, R. S. ‘A History of Plague in Lancashire’, Trans. Hist. Soc. Lanes and Cheshire, Liverpool, 1938, Vol. 90, p. 1.

• Hamilton Thompson, A.* ‘The Pestilences of the 14th Century in the Diocese of York’, Arch. Journ., Vol. 71, 1914, p. 97.

• Hamilton Thompson, A.* ‘Registers of John Gynewell, Bishop of Lincoln, for the years 1347–50’, Arch.Journ., Vol. 68, 1911, p. 302.

• Harvey, P. D. A. A Mediaeval Oxfordshire Village; Cuxham, Oxford, 1965.

• Herlihy, Dr.* ‘Population, Plague and Social Change in Rural Pistoia’, Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd Series, 1965, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, p. 225.

• Hewitt, H. J. Mediaeval Cheshire, Manchester, 1929.

• Hill, I. W. F. Mediaeval Lincoln, Cambridge, 1948. Hilton, R. H. The Economic Development of Some Leicestershire Estates in the 14th and 15th Centuries, Oxford, 1947.

• Hoskins, W. G. Devon, London, 1954.

• Jessop, A. ‘The Black Death in East Anglia’, The Coming of the Friars and other Historic Essays, London, 1894.

• Levett, A. E.* ‘The Black Death on the Estates of the See of Winchester’, Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, Vol. V, Oxford, 1916.

• Lopez de Meneses, A.* ‘Documentos acerca de la peste negra en los dominios de la Corona de Aragon’, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Escuela de Estudios Mediaevales, Vol. VI, 1956, p. 291.

• Lopez de Meneses, A. ‘Una Consecuencia de la Peste Negra en Cataluña: El Pogrom de 1348’, Sefarad, Vol. 19, 1959, p. 92.

• Mollat, M. ‘La Mortalité à Paris’, MoyenAge, Vol. 69, 1963, p. 505.

• Nathan, M. The Annals of West Coker, Cambridge, 1957.

• Page, F. M. The Estates of Cropland Abbey, Cambridge, 1934.

• Porquet, L. La Peste en Normandie, Vire, 1898.

• Prat, G. ‘Albi et la Peste Noire’, Annalesdu Midi, LXIV, 1952, p. 15.

• Raftis, J. A. Estates of Ramsey Abbey, Toronto, 1957.

• Reincke, H. ‘Bevölkerungsverluste der Hansestädte durch den Schwarzen Tod’, Hansische Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 72, 1954, p. 88.

• Riley, H. T. Memorials of London and London Life, London, 1868.

• Robo, E. ‘The Black Death in the Hundred of Farnham’, Eng. Hist. Rev., Vol. XLIV, 1929, p. 560.

• Roucaud, J. La Pesteà Toulouse, Toulouse, 1918.

• Saunders, H. W. An Introduction to the Obedientiary and Manor Rolls of Norwich Cathedral Priory, Norwich, 1930.

• Smyth, J. ‘The Lives of the Berkeleys’, Bristoland Glos.Arch. Soc, Gloucester, 1883.

• Wickersheimer, E. ‘La Peste Noire à Strasbourg et le Régime des cinq médecins strasbourgeois’, Proc. 3rd Int. Cong. Hist. Med., Antwerp, 1923, p. 54.

• Williamson, R. ‘The Plague in Cambridge’, Med.Hist., 1957, I (1), p.51.

It would be absurd to attempt to list all the general works on the period which have contributed something to this book; equally it would be churlish not to mention at least:

• Bennett, H. S. Life on the English Manor, Cambridge, 1956

• Bridbury, A. R. Economic Growth: England in the later Middle Ages, London, 1962.

• Cambridge Economic History, Vols. 1 to 4. In particular Professor Postan’s and Professor Glenicot’s contributions to the second edition (1966) of Vol. I.

• Cambridge Mediaeval History, Vol. III, Cambridge, 1932.

• Huizinga, J. The Waning of the Middle Ages, London, 1924.

• Jusserand, J. J. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, London, 1891.

• Knowles, Dom. D. The Religious Orders in England, Vol. II. Cambridge, 1955.

• Lea, H. C. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, New York, 1887–8.

• Levett, A. E. Studies in Manorial History, Oxford, 1938.

• Lipson, E. The Economic History of England, London, 1945. McKisack, M. The Fourteenth Century, Oxford, 1959.

• Pirenne, H. Economic and Social History of Mediaeval Europe, trans. I. E. Clegg, London, 1936.

• Rogers, J. E. Thorold A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1, Oxford, 1866.

• Six Centuries of Work and Wages, London, 1906.

• Simonde de Sismondi, J. Histoire des Républiques Italiennes du Moyen Age, Vol. VI, Paris, 1826.

There are a large number of additional studies which illuminate one aspect or another of the Black Death. It would in some ways have been desirable to sub-divide them further into groups such as ‘economic effects’ or ‘anti-semitism’ but this could only be done at the expense of a comprehensive and easily consulted list of authors and I have therefore decided to lump all the remaining texts, except those of the contemporary chroniclers and tractators, in a single category. This list does not contain books, cited in the notes, which deal with the Black Death only indirectly yet contribute something to the general picture.