International colloquium
Hybrid form, on 19-21 June 2024 at the University of Lleida.
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Edifici Rectorat, Sala de Juntes, 2n pis
19, 20 and 21 June 2024
Studies of the Black Death and its demographic, social and economic consequences have focused more on the Black Death (1347-1351), thought to be the deadliest plague episode of the Middle Ages and early modern era, and the outbreaks that followed it in the second half of the 14th century. The precise chronology of the plague waves in the 15th and early 16th centuries remains uncertain, as do their demographic effects and the social bias of mortality.
There is a large body of literature on the demographic, social and economic consequences of the Black Death and subsequent outbreaks of bubonic plague, with geographical asymmetries (some regions have been studied much more than others) and widely divergent results. Data on the mortality rates of each plague outbreak in the different towns of the Crown of Aragon and Castile are very diverse and imprecise, making it impossible to reach conclusions on a regional or supra-regional scale.
The social bias of mortality seems to change from 1400 onwards. In well-studied cases such as Italy, it seems that the plague became increasingly socially exclusive, mainly targeting the poor, whereas the better-off could have learned to protect themselves against the plague. It also seems that some plague-related deaths affected women more than men. However, before 1560, the recording of deaths and burials was far from systematic, and the intensity and frequency of mortality, as well as the social bias in mortality, still raise many questions.
Very little is known about the economic consequences of epidemic mortality crises, although certain aspects have been studied, such as the impact of the Black Death on wage trends, on the living standards of the rural and urban population, and on seigneurial revenues. Nonetheless, some authors argue that the Black Death gave rise to a demographic regime shift in Europe that laid the foundations for the Great Divergence. Others attribute the origin of the Little Divergence to the plague.
19 June 2024
16h00
Welcome and Introduction
In memoriam of Marie Kelleher (1970-2024)
1st Session Chairs: Marcelo Candido da Silva (Universidade de São Paulo) and Dominique Castex (PACEA, Université de Bordeaux - CNRS)
16h45 Dominique Castex (PACEA, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS) and Sacha Kacki (PACEA, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS / Durham University) Des anomalies démographiques révélatrices d’une épidémie de peste au sein des populations archéologiques
17h30 Zdeněk Vytlačil (Univerzita Karlova - National Museum, Praha)
Isotope analyses in Justinian plague research: A case of Saint-Doulchard
18h15 Break
18h45 Sacha Kacki (PACEA, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS / Durham University) Répercussions de la Peste noire sur l’alimentation des populations du Sud de la France : nouvelles données issues d’analyses isotopiques de séries squelettiques toulousaines
19h30 Timothy Newfield (Georgetown University) When can we talk about smallpox? Non-plague epidemics and smallpox’s prickly premodern past
20 June 2024
2nd Session
Chairs: Thomas Barton (University of San Diego) and Pere Verdés Pijuan (Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats – CSIC, Barcelona)
9h30 Marcelo Cândido da Silva (Universidade de São Paulo) Epidemics and famines in the post-Roman world: towards a syndemic approach?
10h15 Joan Maltas Montoro (Universitat de Lleida) Mortality crises before the Black Death in Catalonia (1300-1348): chronology and impact
11h00 Break
11h30 Pere Benito i Monclús and Albert Reixach Sala (Universitat de Lleida) Assessing the chronology and impact of epidemics and mortality crises in Catalonia (1348-1530)
12h15 André Filipe Oliveira da Silva (CITCEM – Universidade do Porto / CIDEHUS – Universidade de Évora) Filling a void: the challenges of 14th century Portuguese sources for the study of epidemics
13h00 Alberto Luongo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
The socio-economic consequences of demographic decline in 14th century Italy: towards new chronologies
14h00 – Lunch
Excursion to Tàrrega
16h00 Transfer from Lleida to Tàrrega
17h00 Guided visit to the exhibition “Tragèdia al call. Tàrrega 1348” at the Museu Comarcal de l’Urgell-Tàrrega, Jewish quarter (call) of Tàrrega and house of the Jewish philosopher and physician of the 15th century Avraham Xalom
19h30 Back to Lleida
21 June 2024
3rd Session
Chairs: Alexis Wilkin (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Pere Benito i Monclús (Universitat de Lleida)
9h00 Tim Soens (Universiteit Antwerpen) The Black Death and the Commoner: differential experiences of plague in the late medieval Low Countries
9h45 Stef Espeel (Universiteit Antwerpen) Disruption in patterns of production and consumption of large landlords during the plague episodes of 14th-century Flanders
10h30 Break
11h00 Davide Cristoferi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Agrarian change after the Black Death: labour regulations, fiscal policies and land consolidation in Florence and Siena (c. 1350-1430)
11h45 Laura Miquel (Universitat de València)
The Black Death in Tortosa: social inequality before and after 1348
12h30 Thomas Barton (University of San Diego)
Municipal Responses to Epidemics in Tortosa and the Baix Ebre at the end of the 14th century
13h15 – Lunch
15h00 Pablo Ortego Rico (Universidad de Málaga)
Recaudar los tributos y pagar las obligaciones en tiempos de peste: Castilla, ca. 1470-1509
Conclusions
15h45
Alexis Wilkin (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Scientific organising committee
Pere BENITO i MONCLÚS Universitat de Lleida
Marcelo CÂNDIDO DA SILVA Universidade de São Paulo
Dominique CASTEX PACEA, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS
Pere VERDÉS i PIJUAN Institució Milà i Fontanals d’Investigació en Humanitats - CSIC
Alexis WILKIN Université Libre de Bruxelles
Scientific Advisory Board
Wim BLOCKMANS Universiteit Leiden
Jean-Pierre DEVROEY
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Laurent FELLER
Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Antoni FURIÓ
Universitat de València
Luciano PALERMO
Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani
Gabriella PICCINNI
Università di Siena
Antoni RIERA i MELIS
Institut d’Estudis Catalans
Technical coordination
Albert REIXACH i SALA Universitat de Lleida
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