Black Death History
Rats, plague pits and beaked masks: most of us carry a handful of half-true images of the Black Death and little else. What really happened when a deadly infection reached the harbors of Europe in 1347 and crossed the continent in four years? Black Death History tells that story as a narrative, from the hungry, crowded Europe of the 1340s to the silent streets of Siena and Florence, the doctors wh...
Rats, plague pits and beaked masks: most of us carry a handful of half-true images of the Black Death and little else. What really happened when a deadly infection reached the harbors of Europe in 1347 and crossed the continent in four years? Black Death History tells that story as a narrative, from the hungry, crowded Europe of the 1340s to the silent streets of Siena and Florence, the doctors wh...
