black death

Traces the progress of this disease, and reveals how it transformed European society.

Examines the Black Death and its impact on the structure of society, the population, and the economy, using excerpts from both contemporary descriptions of its devastating effects and scholarly articles.

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.

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.

Tells the parallel stories of Alejandro Canches, a fourteenth-century physician who is conscripted against his will to serve as a plague doctor in the court of Edward III, and Janie Crowe, an American medical archaeologist who unwittingly releases the bubonic plague upon the world in 2005 while doing research in England.

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.

Explores the black death plagues and its effect on different parts of the world.

When the plague comes to her medieval town, a young girl must flee to find sanctuary.

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.

Traces the history of the plague from ancient times to today, focusing on the Black Death and its aftermath in the Middle Ages. Also discusses causes and cures of the disease.