num_pages: 42
description: Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In this engaging and well-researched book, the trajectory of the plague’s march west across Eurasia and the cause of the great pandemic is thoroughly explored.✓ What was the Black Death?✓ A Short History of Pandemics✓ Chronology &amp; Trajectory✓ Causes &amp; Pathology✓ Medieval Theories &amp; Disease Control✓ Black Death in Medieval Culture✓ ConsequencesFascinating insights into the medieval mind’s perception of the disease and examinations of contemporary accounts give a complete picture of what the world’s most effective killer meant to medieval society in particular and humanity in general.
language: English
title: The Black Death: A History From Beginning to End
publisher: Hourly History