Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Rosemary Horrox is Fellow in History, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Reviews

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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