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Author Wray, Shona Kelly.

Title Communities and crisis : Bologna during the Black Death / by Shona Kelly Wray.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The medieval Mediterranean ; v. 83
Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 83.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents List of tables, figures, and maps -- A note on currency, names, and titles -- Introduction -- The notarial evidence : testaments in the libri memoriali, demaniale, and the provvisori -- lluminating the dark century : notarial evidence on Bologna's civic life -- Social reactions of the populace during the Black Death -- Public persons during the Black Death -- Neighborhood activity during the Black Death -- The individual and the family -- Conclusion -- Map of Bologna -- Map of parishes of Bologna -- List of parishes for map of parishes of Bologna.
Summary Based on testaments and notarial contracts, this examination of the Black Death of 1348 argues for social resilience in Bologna. The notarial record demonstrates that notaries, officials, medical practitioners, and clergy served the populace, while families remained intact and the populace resisted flight.
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Subject Black Death -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Bologna -- History.
Black death -- Social aspects.
Italy -- Bologna.
History.
Black Death.
Black Death -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- Sources.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Notaries -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- To 1500.
Notaries.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Wills -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- To 1500.
Wills.
City and town life -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- To 1500.
City and town life.
Community life -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- To 1500.
Community life.
Parishes -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- To 1500.
Parishes.
Bologna (Italy) -- Social conditions.
Bologna (Italy) -- Economic conditions.
Plague -- history.
History, 15th Century.
Italy.
Chronological Term To 1506
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Wray, Shona Kelly. Communities and crisis. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004176348 (DLC) 2009012906 (OCoLC)317623402
ISBN 9789047429784 (electronic book)
9047429788 (electronic book)
9789004176348 (cloth)
9004176349 (cloth)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004176348.i-300