The Plague

Contemporary Perspectives
Origins
Causes
Effects
The Plague as Literary Motif

There is an enormous amount of reliable scholarship on the Plague. For general reading, however, we suggest two books in particular: David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997 and Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, London, Collins, 1979.

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Fresco, "Pope St. Sylvester's Miracle" (~1340) --- Cappella di Bardi di Vernio, Santa Croce, Florence