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Understanding the Black Death Student Materials.pdfBlack Death in Florence Student Materials_0.pdfThe Black Death- Causes & Blame
The Black Death- 2 excerpts
Great Primary Source Websites:
OER Project (Docs 1-4 are primary sources)
Francesco Petrarca: Ad Seipsum (Terror of Death all around)
Marchionne di Coppo di Stefano Buonaiuti (attempted cures, everyone around them dying)
Gabriele de' Mussi on the Plague-(account of the plague reaching Sicily on ships)
The Chronical (c.1359) by Jean de Venette (d.1369) (description of symptoms, blame, death)
On the Cause of this General Pestilence...by Geoffrey de Meaux (c.1350) (blame it on the planets)
Henry Knighton (workers demanding more-paragraph starting with "Meanwhile")
Original The Decameron
Original The Florentine Chronicle
Original Ibn-al Wardi
Original Paris Medical Faculty
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