[Mobile library] In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
♛ Norman F. Cantor ♛
| #1226178 in Books | Free Press | 2001-04-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.73 x.92 x5.72l, | File Name: 0684857359 | 245 pages |
||23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.| Avoid this like the plague...|By Dr. Christopher Coleman|Cantor strikes a populist direction with this book. He affects a breezy writing style (one can easily imagine much of his writing as a spoken, off-the-cuff lecture punctuated by more-or-less amusing asides, some of which totally derail his train of thought), the book is short (only 220 pages of text) and there is not|.com |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,
Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was, and how it made history, remain shrouded in a haze of myths.Norman Cantor, the premier historian of the Middle Ages, draws togeth...
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