Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-106) and index.
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction: Plague to end all humankind -- We all fall down: Causes and immediate devastation of the Black Death: Arrival of the plague in Europe / Charles L. Mee Jr. -- Recent scientific reassessments of the Black Death / Norman F. Cantor -- Whole place was a sepulchre: Contemporary chronicles of the Black Death: Death comes to Florence / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Impact of the Black Death in England / Henry Knighton -- Treatise on the prevention and cure of the plague / John of Burgundy -- World turned upside down: Reactions to and repercussions of the Black Death: Desperate Responses: Flagellants and the persecution of Jews / Philip Ziegler -- Devastating and far-reaching effects of the Black Death / Robert S. Gottfried -- Advances in medicine, surgery and public sanitation / Anna Montgomery Campbell -- Competing historical interpretations of the Black Death -- Further research -- Index.
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