Description: In the middle of the 14th century, the Black Death led to mass deaths in Westphalia and the Rhinelandbut even after that, the region was repeatedly afflicted by devastating epidemics. On the basis of contemporary written sources, Kay Peter Jankrift shows how secular and ecclesiastical authorities, as well as the city population, deal
Brief description: Kay Jankrift lehrt am Institut fur Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin der Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf.