{"product_id":"after-the-black-death-mark-bailey-9780198857884","title":"After the Black Death: Economy, Society, and the Law in Fourteenth-Century England","description":"The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst pandemic in recorded history. \u003cem\u003eAfter the Black Death\u003c\/em\u003e offers a major reinterpretation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequences in England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter the Black Death\u003c\/em\u003e reassesses the established scholarship on the impact of plague on fourteenth-century England and draws upon original research into primary sources to offer a major re-interpretation of the subject. It studies how the government reacted to the crisis, and how communities adapted in its wake. It places the pandemic within the wider context of extreme weather and epidemiological events, the institutional framework of markets and serfdom, and the role of law in reducing risks and conditioning behaviour. The government's response to the Black Death is reconsidered in order to cast new light on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy 1400, the effects of plague had resulted in major changes to the structure of society and the economy, creating the pre-conditions for England's role in the Little Divergence (whereby economic performance in parts of north western Europe began to move decisively ahead of the rest of the continent). \u003cem\u003eAfter the Black Death\u003c\/em\u003e explores in detail how a major pandemic transformed society, and, in doing so, elevates the third quarter of the fourteenth century from a little-understood paradox to a critical period of profound and irreversible change in English and global history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198857888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198857884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022","brand":"Mark Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989162361087,"sku":"9780198857884","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d40b0dd3-11c8-4e12-b271-1b52300e468b.jpg?v=1683297927","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-the-black-death-mark-bailey-9780198857884","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}