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The Black Death: A Chronicle of the Plague
The Black Death A Chronicle of the Plague Author:Johannes Nohl Hailed by the New York Times as "unusually interesting both as history and sociological study," The Black Death: A Chronicle of the Plague traces the ebb and flow of European pandemics between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries through translations of contemporary accounts, including those of Petrarch, DeFoe, Paracelsus, and Machiavelli. No... more »hl?s volume is unique for its geographical and historical scope as well as its combination of detailed accounts and overarching contemporary views of the plague, a disease that claimed nearly forty million people during the fourteenth century alone. With current concerns about pandemics, The Black Death provides lessons on how humans reacted to and survived catastrophic loss of life to disease.« less