black death

Describes the origins, spread, and effects of the terrible plague that devastated fourteenth-century Europe.

Examines the origins, spread, and effects of the bubonic plague in fourteenth-century England and Europe, as well as the later discovery of its cause and cure.

Presents nine essays on the Black Death, covering such aspects as its causes, its impact on different countries, Jewish persecution, and historical interpretations of the epidemic.

An exploration of the Black Death, a fourteenth-century pandemic that claimed the lives of twenty-five to forty-five million people, discussing what caused it, its social, economic, religious, and cultural implications, how it was ended, and other related topics.

Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.

Explores how daily life was impacted during the Black Death plague in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, describing how special diets, medicines, travel restrictions, and other measures influenced how people ate, socialized, worked, and traveled.

In Kingsbridge during the year 1327, four children witness two men being killed in the forest; and years later, even though they have grown apart, they are connected by what they saw.

Soon after she, her mother, and her younger brother move into an old house on what was once known as Beggarsgate, Emily begins to have terrifyingly real glimpses of scenes of seventeenth-century London devastated by the plague.