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HIST 2310: The Last Duel

This topic guide is designed to assist students in Mr. Rafalowski's HIST 2310 with writing about The Last Duel by Eric Jager.

Black Death or Bubonic Plague Books

Black Death: natural and human disaster in medieval Europe

Call no. RC178.G3 G67 1983

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Traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of the infamous outbreak of plague that spread across Europe from 1347 to 1351.

Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World

Call no. RA649 .S44 2007

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Plagues in World History

Call no. RA649 .A24 2011

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The Black Death and the Dancing Mania

The account of "The Black Death" here translated by Dr. Babington was Hecker's first important work of this kind. It was published in 1832, and was followed in the same year by his account of "The Dancing Mania."

The New Cambridge Medieval History, C. 1300-C. 1415

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This covers the fourteenth century, a period dominated by plague, other natural disasters, and war which brought to an end three centuries of economic growth and cultural expansion in Christian Europe, but one which also saw an important development in government, changes of emphasis, and concern in religious and intellectual life, giving greater weight to the voice of the laity, and new cultural and artistic patterns, not least with the rise of vernacular literature.