Date of Award
Spring 5-2015
Degree Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
History
First Advisor
Westley Follett
Advisor Department
History
Abstract
Research regarding the Yersinia Pestis (bubonic plague) in later medieval and early modern Europe has focused mainly on rat fleas and their role in transmitting the bacteria. This research focuses on people and their day to day movements and how that relates to the spread of bubonic plague across the following three areas of Europe, England, France and northern Italy during the time period between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. The changing belief system regarding the cause of these outbreaks emerges within these medieval Europeans which helps to facilitate the growing response to plague outbreaks and the affirmative actions taken to eliminate them.
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Recommended Citation
Fowler, Gillian R., "Moving the Plague: the Movement of People and the Spread of Bubonic Plague in Fourteenth Century through Eighteenth Century Europe" (2015). Honors Theses. 313.
https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/313