The Black Death
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Websites
The Black Death, 1348
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm
More first-hand testimony from Giovanni Boccaccio.
The Great Mortality
http://historymedren.about.com/od/theblackdeath
/a/greatmortality.htm
Brief but thoughtful introduction to the Black Death, with links to related articles and reading.
The History of the Black Death
www.firstscience.com/SITE/ARTICLES/
history-of-the-black-death.asp
Two-part article by Christopher Duncan and Susan Scott, based on their
revisionist book (see below).
Books
The
Black Death 1346-1353: The complete history by Ole Benedictow
(Boydell, 2004)
This magisterial account from Benedictow, professor of history at Oslo
University, mixes demographic research, meticulous reading of the chronicles
and modern bacteriology to reaffirm that bubonic plague was indeed the
cause of the black death.
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Plague:
Black Death and Pestilence in Europe by Andrew Spicer and William
Naphy (Tempus, 2004)
A history of the Black Death, by one of the participants of the television
documentary.
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Return
of the Black Death: The world's greatest serial killer by Susan
Scott and Christopher Duncan (John Wiley, 2004)
If the black death was not bubonic plague, but an unknown viral infection
possibly related to the lethal Ebola or Marburg viruses, then, say Scott,
a demographic historian, and Duncan, a zoologist, it could be 'merely
lying in wait, ready to strike again', just as it did in 1347.
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