Part one: Narrative accounts
1. The plague in continental Europe
2. The plague in the British Isles
Part two: Explanations and responses
3. The religious response
4. Scientific explanations
5. Human agency
Part three: Consequences
6. The impact of the plague
7. Repercussions
Suggestions for further reading
Index
Rosemary Horrox is Fellow in History, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
This is an outstanding collection of documents written by those who
lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century: chosen with great
skill, translated felicitously and accompanied by commentaries
which contain a wealth of informed judgements. It provides an
abundance of intimate insights into a society experiencing the most
lethal epidemic in recorded history, and is essential as well as
fascinating reading for anyone with a serious interest in the
middle ages
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