This book deals with the second- starting around 1347- which is certainly the best known. The first recorded instance occurred in 542. "Ī summary of the Black Death: This wasn't the first time a plague of this variety hit mankind- in fact, we know about three such pandemics. It is an attempt to synthesise in a single readable but reasonably comprehensive volume the records of the contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historian, in particular the great flood of PhD theses. By his own admission, "this book contains no original research.
He includes a historical fiction example of how it would have played out in a typical Medieval English village, and includes brief coverage discussing the toll in lives and ramifications to education, agriculture, and architecture. He also covers its spread through Europe and how certain regions (Italy, France, Germany, and Britain) were specifically afflicted.
Its origins, nature, and consequences (economic, social, religious, and other) are discussed in a book of the same name by Philip Ziegler. From 1347-50, about one-third of Europeans were killed by that infamous plague, the Black Death.
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