April 27, 2001
Studying the Black Death
I've written numerous medieval-history books, with about one million copies in print. Yet when an editor at the Free Press called in the summer of 1997, asking whether I would consider doing a book on the Black Death, which swept through Europe in the 14th century, I had my doubts. The press considered the Black Death a timely topic, given all the talk about pandemics and bioterrorism, as well as rapidly intensifying biomedical research on infectious disease.
In the England of 1500,
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