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In the Wake of the Plague

The Black Death and the World It Made

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In the Wake of the Plague

By: Norman F. Cantor
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 Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was, and how it made history, remain shrouded in a haze of myths.

Norman Cantor, the premier historian of the Middle Ages, draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and groundbreaking historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death afresh, as a gripping, intimate narrative.

 Europe History & Commentary Medicine & Health Care Industry Medieval Science World Middle Ages Middle East
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....that treason goes unpunished these days! if you can get past the comments including that the English royalty of today have no taste! there are 'some' interesting factual elements.
its a shame that you have have some knowledge of the subject to discern what is opinion and what is based on fact. Would not recommend for any kind of research purposes!

Author must be thankful....

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There is nothing new here. In fact a lot of the author's assumptions have been undermined by more recent scholarship. I really enjoyed his earlier books but this one has been infected by that awful urge to signal one's virtue, to vocally establish one's fully endorsed political credentials, for this to be more important than presenting facts and informed analysis of events of many hundreds of years ago. I feel that my money was wasted. I can get authors and lecturers announcing their modern political and social orthodoxy for free, they are all at it. It's practically compulsory after all.

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The book was great. It provided insights into the black death in a lovely rambling way.

Great - a really interesting insight

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Basic things like Thomas Hardy,s stories being set in “Devon” instead of Dorset and some fairly unnecessary comments about the British just put me off and didn’t make me trust what was being said so I left it half listened to..
fairly amateur work .

Could do better

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This book is very patchy indeed. it is blatantly left wing and uses modern political groupings to describe medieval thinking, as if Marks and the Levellers were identical. it is also wrong on many points. However there are random interesting bits scattered about its haphazard chronology. It fails to inform one of any overview of the culture and economics of the period. Very disappointing.

Appalling failure of a book

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