Description
In October 1347, plague ships limped into the harbor of Messina, Sicily — and within four years, between a third and half of all the people in Europe were dead. The Black Death was the greatest catastrophe the medieval world ever faced: from the Mongol siege of Kaffa, where plague corpses were catapulted over city walls, to the rats and fleas of the merchant galleys, the plague swept from Sicily to Scandinavia at a mile a day.
Follow the Black Death through its darkest chapters — the bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plagues; the helpless doctors of Paris and their astrology; the beaked plague doctors with their perfume-filled masks; the flagellants whipping themselves in town squares; the emptied villages and mass plague pits; and the terrifying pogroms built on fear. Then discover the strange aftermath: how the deadliest pandemic in history doubled wages, broke the power of the lords, cracked feudalism apart, and set Europe on the road to the Renaissance.
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