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What Can the Black Death Tell Us About the Global Economic Consequences of a Pandemic?

Adrian R. Bell    Henley Business School, University of Reading    

Helen Lacey    University of Oxford, UK    

Andrew Prescott    University of Glasgow, UK    

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The COVID-19 pandemic and global lockdown have led to academics and media outlets looking for historical parallels to draw lessons from. Whilst great care needs to be taken when trying to relate events many centuries apart, this chapter reviews the Black Death (1348-1351) and particularly focuses upon its economic impact on England. We will contextualise the pandemic and illustrate both the immediate and longer term outcomes of this devastating event. Whilst we can direct the reader to implications for our current situation, we will also discuss the many differences of these two global events.

Published
July 31, 2020
Accepted
June 30, 2020
Submitted
June 3, 2020
Language
EN
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-442-4

Keywords: Pandemic • Recovery • Black Death • Economic History

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-442-4/002

Copyright: © 2020 Adrian R. Bell, Helen Lacey, Andrew Prescott. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.