A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third of Europe's people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history. Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler offers a critically acclaimed overview of this crucial epoch in a single masterly volume. The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.
Chapter 2. The State of Europe
Chapter 4. France: the State of Medical Knowledge
Chapter 5. Germany: the Flagellants and the Persecution of the Jews
Chapter 6. The Rest of Continental Europe
Chapter 7. Arrival in England: the West Country
Chapter 8. Progress Across the South
Chapter 9. London: Hygiene and the Medieval City
Chapter 10. Sussex, Kent and East Anglia
Chapter 11. The Midlands and the North of England
Chapter 12. The Welsh Borders, Wales, Ireland and Scotland
Chapter 13. The Plague in a Medieval Village
Chapter 15. The Social and Economic Consequences
Chapter 16. Education, Agriculture and Architecture
Chapter 17. The Effects on the Church and Man’s Mind
THE BLACK DEATH IN RECENT HISTORIOGRAPHY