TY - CHAP
T1 - Trade, Production, and Disease in the Middle Ages
AU - Curtis, Daniel R.
PY - 2024/2/1
Y1 - 2024/2/1
N2 - In the late medieval period, trade and production created conditions conducive to disease spread, and these diseases, in turn, also had implications for economic development. Typically, historians have tended to emphasise the major redistributive effects of the Black Death – the idea that an affliction which killed large amounts of people but kept resources intact created post-epidemic ‘bonuses’ for those that survived. Nowadays, however, we are more receptive to the idea that (a) not all social and demographic groups benefitted equally from this outbreak, and (b) epidemics had direct economic costs, rendering the previous idea of ‘intact resources’ incorrect.
AB - In the late medieval period, trade and production created conditions conducive to disease spread, and these diseases, in turn, also had implications for economic development. Typically, historians have tended to emphasise the major redistributive effects of the Black Death – the idea that an affliction which killed large amounts of people but kept resources intact created post-epidemic ‘bonuses’ for those that survived. Nowadays, however, we are more receptive to the idea that (a) not all social and demographic groups benefitted equally from this outbreak, and (b) epidemics had direct economic costs, rendering the previous idea of ‘intact resources’ incorrect.
UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/entries/10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO413-1/trade-production-disease-middle-ages-daniel-curtis-hannele-klemettil%C3%A4-victoria-mcalister?context=rroms&refId=a2f32c91-2967-4b46-854e-e1193621bcaa
U2 - 10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO413-1
DO - 10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO413-1
M3 - Chapter
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia
A2 - Klemettilä, Hannele
A2 - McAlister, Victoria
PB - Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
CY - London
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