The Black Death / Nardo, Don

This book traces the history of the bubonic plague, from 1347 when the "Black Death" arrived in Constantinople, Egypt, Sicily, and Italy to the outbreak of the bubonic plague in San Francisco from 1900-1904 to occasional isolated incidents of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century.

Contains eleven essays in which the authors examine the history, causes, and economic and cultural impact of the fourteenth-century plague known as the Black Death.