JENNY MELEEN

HEALTH IN THE MIDDLE AGES
 

1.  Church's involvement with the Bubonic Plague
     Maps showing spread of plague through Europe
    http://www.ecnet.net/users/gemedia3/Plague/Plague.html

2.  Cure the plague: a mini-quiz
     http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/healtact2.html
 
 

3.  Diseases and treatment during the Middle Ages
     http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/health.html

4. 22 pages on everything you ever wanted to know about the Black Death http://history.idbsu.edu/westciv/plague/

5. 2 easy-to-read pages about concept of health (humors), treatment, and surgery
      http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/health.html
 
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

     Nicholas, David.  The Domestic Life of a Medieval City:  Women, Children, and the Family in Fourteenth-Century Ghent.  University of Nebraska Press:  Lincoln and London.  1985.
     This is a short volume containing many tables and graphs on domestic life. Also, Chapter 1 and 2 discuss domestic violence.