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Oliveira da Silva, André Filipe, A Peste Negra em Portugal: os casos do Entre-Douro-e-Minho e do Entre-Tejo-e-Odiana, Tesi doctoral de la Universidade do Porto, 2021, 789 pp.
- Resum
- The Black Death had an unparalleled impact in the history of Europe, and of all Old World, generally. Consensus around this interpretation and a vast and consolidated historiography – enriched by the contributions of physical and life sciences – has been allowing extraordinary new international achievements. However, the characteristics of the surviving Portuguese documentation requires an indirect approach, through the use of economic sources, mainly property management. This preference allows to reveal short-term tendencies, as the fall of property rents, instantaneous and very significant in the main institutions studied, but allows equally to discard the direct influence of the Black Death in processes such as monetarization or the preferential length of agrarian contracts. Without the possibility of present mortality rates, due to the lack of data, the demographic fall is perceptible; however, the volume of deaths – no matter its real value – was not able to interrupt the normal functioning of institutions for more than a few months. This does not mean that there were not perennial marks of the plague, surviving in the memory of those who survived and their descendants. It is clear, however, that only a succession of other negative events – earthquakes, droughts, new plagues and wars, among others – allowed that these acute consequences could last, with the maintenance of low rents which, in some way, reveal a smaller population, but not smaller enough to provoke a remarkable abandonment of fields and/or villages. It was not a prosperous kingdom the one the Black Death encountered, and even less the one which emerged after the plague. However, the infamous epidemic seems to have failed to produce remarkable structural changes, even if its impact and its consequences were important, immediate and clear to the eyes of those who experienced it.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/50749731/A_Peste_Negra_em_ ...
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