The
Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe
by Sam K. Cohn
Paperback from Edward Arnold
Book Published: March, 2003
The
Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
by Marilyn Chase
Hardcover from Random House
Book Published: 18 March, 2003
The
Black Death and the Transformation of the West
by David Herlihy, Samuel K. Cohn
Paperback from Harvard Univ Pr
Book Published: September, 1997
The
Black Death
by Robert S. Gottfried, Phyllis Corzine
Book Description A fascinating work of detective history, The Black
Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous
outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347
to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological
studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried
demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by rat fleas brought on an ecological
reign of terror -- killing one European in three, wiping out entire villages
and towns, and rocking the foundation of medieval society and civilization.
Paperback from Free Press
Book Published: May, 1985
Black
Death, White Medicine : Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health
in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945
by Myron Echenberg
Paperback from Heinemann
Book Published: November, 2001
The
Black Death & the Dancing Mania
by J. F. C. Hecker, B. G. Babington
Paperback from Indypublish.Com
Book Published: March, 2002
The
Black Death: A History of Plagues 1345-1730
by William Naphy, Andrew Spicer
Paperback: 192 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.60 x
9.40 x 6.70
Publisher: Tempus Pub Ltd; (March 2002)
ISBN: 0752423088
In
the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by Norman F. Cantor
One-third of Western Europe's population died between 1348 and 1350,
victims of the Black Death. Noted medievalist Norman Cantor tells the story
of the pandemic and its widespread effects in In the Wake of the Plague.
After giving an overview, Cantor describes various theories about the
medical crisis, from contemporary fears of a Jewish conspiracy to poison
the water (and the resulting atrocities against European Jews) to a growing
belief among modern historians that both bubonic plague and anthrax caused
the spiraling death rates. Cantor also details ways in which the Black
Death changed history, at both the personal level (family lines dying out)
and the political (the Plantagenet kings may well have been able to hold
onto France had their resources not been so diminished).
Cantor veers from topic to topic, from dynastic worries to the Dance
of Death, and from peasants' rights to Perpendicular Gothic. This makes
for amusing reading, though those seeking an orderly narrative may be frustrated.
He also seems overly concerned with rumors of homosexual behavior, and
his attempt to link the savage method of Edward II's murder to a cooling
in global weather is a bit farfetched.
Cantor wears his considerable scholarship lightly, but includes a very
useful critical biography for further reading. While not an entry-level
text on the Black Death, In the Wake of the Plague will interest
readers looking for a broader interpretation of its consequences. --Sunny
Delaney - Amazon.com
Paperback: 272 pages
Harper Perennial; ISBN: 0060014342; 1st perenn edition
(April 16, 2002)
A
Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe, Jason Goodwin (Introduction)
(Paperback - November 2001)
King
Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England
by Colin Platt
Paperback from Univ of Toronto Pr
Book Published: June, 1996
Painting
in Florence and Siena after the Black Death
by Millard Meiss
Paperback from Princeton Univ Pr
Book Published: 01 April, 1979
A
History of the Black Death in Ireland
by Maria Kelly
Paperback from Tempus Pub Ltd
Book Published: August, 2001
Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death: Women in Sussex,
1350-1535
by Mavis E. Mate
Hardcover from Univ of Rochester Pr
Book Published: May, 1998
Availability: Out of Stock
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