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Plague and the Russian Countryside: Monastic Estates in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Plague and the Russian Countryside: Monastic Estates in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries LAWRENCE N. LANGER P l a g u e a n d t h e R u s s i a n C o u n t r y s i d e : M o n a s t i c E s t a t e s in t h e L a t e F o u r t e e n t h a n d F i f t e e n t h C e n t u r i e s The study o f plague in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Russia is an important subject that has long been neglected by historians. Those few works that treat the subject have done so cursorily, although historians o f medieval Europe recognize that the Black Death had enormous economic and social consequences.' To help fill this gap I recently presented a catalogue o f plague in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Russia and offered some conclusions concerning its effects upon urban labor.2 That there should be a lack o f such studies is easy to understand, because, as historians of medieval Russia know, there is no statistical evidence upon which to base definitive conclusions. There http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Plague and the Russian Countryside: Monastic Estates in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

LANGER, LAWRENCE N.
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 10 (3): 351 – Jan 1, 1976
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Brill
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© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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10.1163/221023976X00963
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LAWRENCE N. LANGER P l a g u e a n d t h e R u s s i a n C o u n t r y s i d e : M o n a s t i c E s t a t e s in t h e L a t e F o u r t e e n t h a n d F i f t e e n t h C e n t u r i e s The study o f plague in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Russia is an important subject that has long been neglected by historians. Those few works that treat the subject have done so cursorily, although historians o f medieval Europe recognize that the Black Death had enormous economic and social consequences.' To help fill this gap I recently presented a catalogue o f plague in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Russia and offered some conclusions concerning its effects upon urban labor.2 That there should be a lack o f such studies is easy to understand, because, as historians of medieval Russia know, there is no statistical evidence upon which to base definitive conclusions. There

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