Includes bibliographical references (page 54) and index.
Contents
Blood, boils and death -- The deadly plague -- Plague outbreak -- Catastrophe from China to Europe -- Into Italy and France -- Italian cities ravaged -- Horror and hysteria -- Bloodletting and stinks -- Rats, fleas and disease -- Deadly types of plague -- Florence in panic -- Society in crisis -- Cattle wandering -- Persecuting the Jews -- Looking to blame -- The bodies pile high -- Death in England -- London is struck -- Dealing with England's dead -- Madness and massacres -- Disease marches on -- The flagellants -- The Pope stops the flagellants -- The beginning of the end -- The dance of death -- The plague goes full circle -- The children's plague -- How the plague changed Europe -- Plagues in our time.