Henry Freeman - The Black Death: A History From Beginning to End

Author: Henry Freeman

Title: The Black Death: A History from Beginning to End

Language: English

Format: ebook

Rating: 3 stars

Reading challenge:  A book with a title that contains the word "history"

No of pages: 45

Date read: 10.12.2017

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The Black Death 

Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In this engaging and well-researched book, the trajectory of the plague’s march west across Eurasia and the cause of the great pandemic is thoroughly explored. 

Inside you will read about... ✓ What was the Black Death? ✓ A Short History of Pandemics ✓ Chronology & Trajectory ✓ Causes & Pathology ✓ Medieval Theories & Disease Control ✓ Black Death in Medieval Culture ✓ Consequences Fascinating insights into the medieval mind’s perception of the disease and examinations of contemporary accounts give a complete picture of what the world’s most effective killer meant to medieval society in particular and humanity in general.

If you're looking for some serious history book about The Black Death, this is book isn't it. However, if you're looking for some cursory, yet really interesting, information with no real references to the sources, then this is it. I liked it for it gave some really interesting facts about The Black Death back in the 1300s - how it spread and how it was perceived, but I really, really would've loved to see some references at the end of the book because the way it is in its current state may just as well be something the author came up with all by himself.