In the Wake of the Plague
Subtitle: The Black Death and the World It Made
Publisher: Free Press
Published: April 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780684857350
Subjects: Social history; Medieval; Infectious And Parasitic Diseases; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); History - General History; History: World; Europe; Forensic Medicine; History / Europe / General; History; Black Death; Plague
First sentence: IN THE SIXTH MONTH OF THE new millennium and new century, the American Medical Association held a conference on infectious diseases.
Description: "Norman Cantor draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death afresh, as a gripping, intimate narrative.".

"In the Wake of the Plague presents a microcosmic view of the Plague in England (and on the continent), telling the stories of the men and women of the fourteenth century, from peasant to priest, and from merchant to king.

We meet, among others, fifteen-year-old Princess Joan of England, on her way to Spain to marry a Castilian prince; Thomas of Birmingham, abbot of Halesowen, responsible for his abbey as a CEO is for his business in a desperate time; and the once-prominent landowner John le Strange, who sees the Black Death tear away his family's lands and then its very name as it washes, unchecked, over Europe in wave after wave."--BOOK JACKET.