King death -- Mortal pestilences and other calamities -- Here death is chalking doors with crosses -- Satan triumphant -- The year of the annihilation -- The pastilence tyme -- The triumph of death
Summary
The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia, the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of Europe's population died, and in England the population fell from nearly six million to just over three million. Sean Martin looks at the origins of the disease and traces its terrible march through Europe from the Italian cities to the far-flung corners of Scandinavia. He describes contemporary responses to the plague and makes clear ho
Notes
Originally published: 2001
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-151) and index
