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Plague Mortality In Late Medieval Cairo: Quantifying The Plague Outbreaks Of 833/1430 And 864/1460, Stuart Borsch, Tarek Sabraa Jan 2016

Plague Mortality In Late Medieval Cairo: Quantifying The Plague Outbreaks Of 833/1430 And 864/1460, Stuart Borsch, Tarek Sabraa

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Subsisting Or Succumbing? Falling Wages In The Era Of Plague, Stuart Borsch Jan 2014

Subsisting Or Succumbing? Falling Wages In The Era Of Plague, Stuart Borsch

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This article reexamines wages in Egypt using new evidence not analyzed in my previous study of the late Mamluk economy (Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt and England, 2005). The results show that wages for unskilled labor fell precipitously from the 1300s to the 1400s and stayed at a very low level thereafter.


Plague Depopulation And Irrigation Decay In Medieval Egypt, Stuart Borsch Jan 2014

Plague Depopulation And Irrigation Decay In Medieval Egypt, Stuart Borsch

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Starting with the Black Death, and continuing over the century and a half that followed, plague depopulation brought about the ruin of Egypt’s irrigation system, the motor of its economy. For many generations, the Egyptians who survived the plague therefore faced a tragic new reality: a transformed landscape and way of life significantly worsened by plague, a situation very different from that of plague survivors in Europe. This article looks at the ways in which this transformation took place. It measures the scale and scope of rural depopulation and explains why it had such a significant impact on the agricultural …


Review Of Al-Ḥayāh Al-Iqtiṣādīyah Fī Miṣr Fī Al-'Aṣr Al-Mamlūkī By 'Āmir Najīb Mūsá Nāṣir, Stuart Borsch Jan 2007

Review Of Al-Ḥayāh Al-Iqtiṣādīyah Fī Miṣr Fī Al-'Aṣr Al-Mamlūkī By 'Āmir Najīb Mūsá Nāṣir, Stuart Borsch

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Review Of Housing The Stranger In The Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, And Travel In Late Antiquity And The Middle Ages By Olivia Remie Constable, Stuart Borsch Jan 2005

Review Of Housing The Stranger In The Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, And Travel In Late Antiquity And The Middle Ages By Olivia Remie Constable, Stuart Borsch

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Thirty Years After Lopez, Miskimin, And Udovitch, Stuart Borsch Jan 2004

Thirty Years After Lopez, Miskimin, And Udovitch, Stuart Borsch

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