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View Rights PortalThis series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. Translations are accompanied by introductory and explanatory material and each volume includes a comprehensive guide to the sources' interpretation, including discussion of critical linguistic problems and an assessment of recent research on the topics covered. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy.
Research on soldier settlement has to be set within the wider history of emigration and immigration. This book examines two parallel but complementary themes: the settlement of British soldiers in the overseas or 'white' dominions, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, between 1915 and 1930. One must place soldier settlement within the larger context of imperial migration prior to 1914 in order to elicit the changes in attitude and policy which occurred after the armistice. The book discusses the changes to Anglo-dominion relations that were consequent upon the incorporation of British ex-service personnel into several overseas soldier settlement programmes, and unravels the responses of the dominion governments to such programmes. For instance, Canadians and Australians complained about the number of ex-imperials who arrived physically unfit and unable to undertake employment of any kind. The First World War made the British government to commit itself to a free passage scheme for its ex-service personnel between 1914 and 1922. The efforts of men such as L. S. Amery who attempted to establish a landed imperial yeomanry overseas is described. Anglicisation was revived in South Africa after the second Anglo-Boer War, and politicisation of the country's soldier settlement was an integral part of the larger debate on British immigration to South Africa. The Australian experience of resettling ex-servicemen on the land after World War I came at a great social and financial cost, and New Zealand's disappointing results demonstrated the nation's vulnerability to outside economic factors.
Die letzten zehn Jahre seines Lebens verbrachte Uwe Johnson in Sheerness-on-Sea, in der Abgeschiedenheit der britischen Grafschaft Kent - geleitet von der Hoffnung, im eigenen Haus jene Gelassenheit, Distanz und Konzentration wiederzufinden, die ihm für seine faktengetreue, ironisch-hintergründige Schreibweise unerläßlich waren. Indes stagnierte auch in diesem von ihm besonders geschätzten Sprachraum die Arbeit. Grund dafür war eine »Beschädigung der Herzkranzgefässe« sowie eine langdauernde Schreibhemmung. Mit der Arbeit an den Frankfurter Vorlesungen von 1979 gelang es ihm, gegen diese von ihm selbst als »writer's block« diagnostizierte Hemmung anzuschreiben. Ein Resultat seines Schreibens sind die in diesem Band versammelten Inselgeschichten. Über den Plan, Geschichten aus Mitteilungen von Einwohnern der Grafschaft Kent aufzuschreiben und zusammenzustellen, hatte Uwe Johnson schon im Rahmen des Seminars zu den Frankfurter Vorlesungen gesprochen. Materialien hierfür hatte er seit Beginn seines Aufenthalts in Sheerness aufbewahrt. Davon zeugen nicht zuletzt die etwa dreihundert Titel zur Geschichte und Soziologie der Grafschaft Kent in seiner Arbeitsbibliothek: Anfang einer Sammlung, die historisches Unterfutter zu den geplanten Inselgeschichten liefern sollte. Die Nagelprobe auf ein Gelingen dieses Projekts sei aber erst vollbracht, wenn etwa ein Dutzend solcher Geschichten geschrieben sei, gab er noch im Begleitseminar zur Vorlesung in Frankfurt zu bedenken. Allein vier Inselgeschichten wurden zu Lebzeiten veröffentlicht. Sie werden hier ergänzt durch Skizzen, Entwürfe und Materialien, die sich im Nachlaß fanden, so daß ein einprägsames Dokument zur Spätphase seines Werkes entsteht.