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Describes the 1347-1351 outbreak of plague in Europe, known as the Black Death, which killed one out of three people and changed the course of European history.

In 1347, the world was turned upside-down by a bacterial epidemic that spread along trade routes from the Middle East to nearly all of Europe, killing approximately 40% of the population in its path. This anthology covers the scientific causes of the Black Death, as well as the immediate and long-term consequences of the disaster.