The Black Death

<strong>The Black Death</strong> is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonicplague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. Sean Martin... » 

The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonicplague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. Sean Martin looks atthe origins of the disease and traces its terrible march through Europe fromthe Italian cities to the farflung corners of Scandinavia. He describescontemporary responses to the plague and makes clear how helpless was themedicine of the day in the face of it. «