A fame et impidemia libera nos, Domine! Mortality Crisis in Medieval Europe A fame et impidemia libera nos, Domine!
Mário Jorge da Motta BASTOS
Original title: A fame et impidemia libera nos, Domine! Crises de Mortalidade na Europa Medieval
Published in War and Disease in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Keywords: Medieval History, Middle Ages, Mortality Crisis, Plague.
In this article, we propose to historicize the intense and, why not say, suffered incidence of the successive impacts produced by the mortality crisis in medieval societies of Western Europe – with special emphasis on those arising from epidemics of bubonic plague and famines –, considering particularly the epidemic cycle initiated by the pandemic that, between 1348 and 1352, afflicted three continents, as well as its incidence in the kingdom of Portugal between the 14th and 16th centuries. We intend to consider its main vectors, evolution, motivations and consequences in the context of a civilization that was experiencing the crisis that determined its decline.
The memory of the plagues in the ancient Kingdom of Valencia: from the marginal note to the centrality (15th-17th century)
Vicent Josep ESCARTÍ
Original title: La memòria de les pestes a l’antic Regne de València: de la nota marginal a la centralitat (s. XV-XVII)
Published in
Keywords: Bertomeu Ribelles, Diaries, Francesc Gavaldà, News, Plague, Vicent Arcaina.
This article takes a look at the Valencian memorial literature that contains information on the different waves of plague, from the 14th to the 17th century. The plague goes from being a “marginal” to a "central" theme. It moved from brief annotations to specific narration, with works such as those by Francesc Gavaldà and Vicent Arcaina. Bartomeu Ribelles, at the end of the 18th century, was the first to make a study of epidemics in Valencia.
War and Disease. Between Pericles´s Funeral Oration and the plague of Athens
Antonio CORTIJO
Original title: Guerra y enfermedad. Entre el Discurso fúnebre de Pericles y la plaga de Atenas
Published in War and Disease in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Keywords: Athens, Funeral Oration, Plague, Thucydides, War.
Pericles’s Funeral Oration in 431 BC praises Athens’s values (dialogue, citizens’ participation, democracy) against Spartan oligarchy during the Peloponnesian War. Only a few months after the oration was delivered, a terrible plague decimated Athenian democracy and ended Pericles’s life.
