The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

David Herlihy

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

    Introduction

    Bubonic Plague: Historical Epidemiology and the Medical Problems

    The New Economic and Demographic System

    Modes of Thought and Feeling

    Notes

    Index

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David Herlihy (d. 1991) was Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor and Professor of History at Brown University.

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. Among his books are The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death and Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in the Italian Renaissance.