In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the

Between 1347 and 1352 an unknown and deadly disease, only much later known as the Black Death, swept across Europe, leaving an estimated 30-50 % of the populati

Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker's (also known as J. F. C. Hecker) The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century served as an introduction to the black death plague for

William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – t

Traces the history of the Black Death, looks at the cause, and shows how it affected the lives of people living in the Middle Ages