black death

An exploration of the Black Death, a fourteenth-century pandemic that claimed the lives of twenty-five to forty-five million people, discussing what caused it, its social, economic, religious, and cultural implications, how it was ended, and other related topics.

Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.

Explores how daily life was impacted during the Black Death plague in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, describing how special diets, medicines, travel restrictions, and other measures influenced how people ate, socialized, worked, and traveled.

In Kingsbridge during the year 1327, four children witness two men being killed in the forest; and years later, even though they have grown apart, they are connected by what they saw.

Soon after she, her mother, and her younger brother move into an old house on what was once known as Beggarsgate, Emily begins to have terrifyingly real glimpses of scenes of seventeenth-century London devastated by the plague.

Describes how the Black Plague of the fourteenth century affected the history of England and explores the plague's beneficial results.

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.

The life of Henri, a quiet, sickly boy who has grown up behind abbey walls, changes forever when he is befriended by Micah, a joyful, undisciplined street urchin who joins the choir at St. Luc's in 1348, just before France is stricken by the Plague.

A young boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the antisemitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.