{"id":13850,"date":"2023-04-13T04:57:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T04:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-black-death-the-great-mortality-of-1348-1350-a-brief-history-with-documents-author-john-aberth\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T04:57:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T04:57:35","slug":"the-black-death-the-great-mortality-of-1348-1350-a-brief-history-with-documents-author-john-aberth","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-black-death-the-great-mortality-of-1348-1350-a-brief-history-with-documents-author-john-aberth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350 (A Brief History with Documents), author John Aberth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Aberth\u2019s book offers a well-researched introduction to the Bubonic Plague outbreak of the 14th century. The majority of the book is devoted to a collection of primary sources \u2013 sources written by persons who lived (and in some instances died) during this biomedical catastrophe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Your task is to write an essay of no less than 1500 words on Aberth\u2019s The Black Death. For the sake of providing guidelines to help everyone organize their work, be sure to address the following points in the course of your term paper:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Read Aberth\u2019s introduction (Part One) and explain the basic course of the outbreak of the Black Plague from 1348 to 1350, including the likely origin and the historical significance of the disease. Also provide an explanation of what Aberth refers to as \u2018The Plague Denial Controversy\u2019.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Part Two of the book \u2013 The Documents \u2013 consists of eight chapters. After giving the primary source documents a thorough reading, provide commentary on documents from at least six of the eight chapters. Be sure to include the name of the author and the date of the document. &nbsp;John Aberth\u2019s book offers a well-researched introduction to the Bubonic Plague outbreak of the 14th century. The majority of the book is devoted to a collection of primary sources \u2013 sources written by persons who lived (and in some instances died) during this biomedical catastrophe.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Aberth\u2019s book offers a well-researched introduction to the Bubonic Plague outbreak of the 14th century. The majority of the book is devoted to a collection of primary sources \u2013 sources written by persons who lived (and in some instances died) during this biomedical catastrophe.&nbsp; Your task is to write an essay of no less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/13850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/13850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=13850"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=13850"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=13850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}