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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wray, Shona Kelly.

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 83.

The medieval Mediterranean ; v. 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Death--Social aspects--Italy--Bologna--History.

Black Death.

Black Death--Social aspects--Italy--Bologna--History--Sources.

Notaries--Italy--Bologna--History--To 1500.

Notaries.

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)--History--To 1506.

Bologna (Italy).

Bologna (Italy)--Social conditions.

Bologna (Italy)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bologna is well known for its powerful university and notariate of the thirteenth century, but the fourteenth-century city is less studied. This work redresses the imbalance in scholarship by examining social and economic life at mid-fourteenth century, particularly during the epidemic of plague, the Black Death of 1348. Arguing against medieval chroniclers' accounts of massive social, political, and religious breakdown, this examination of the immediate experience of the epidemic, based on notarial records--including over a thousand testaments--demonstrates resilience during the crisis. The notarial record reveals the activities and decisions of large numbers of individuals and families in the city and provides a reconstruction of the behavior of clergy, medical practitioners, government and neighborhood officials, and notaries during the epidemic.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-40145-9

9786612401459

90-474-2978-8

OCLC:

574049964

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004176348.i-300 DOI