In the Wake of the Plague, Norman F. Cantor
In the Wake of the Plague, Norman F. Cantor
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In the Wake of the Plague
The Black Death and the World It Made

Author: Norman F. Cantor

Narrator: John McDonough

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/05/2003


Synopsis

In this New York Times best-seller, Norman F. Cantor digs through the medical evidence and concludes that the Black Death of the 14th century was probably two diseases at once: bubonic plague and anthrax. He shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as individuals, and thus altered history. Concise, informative, and touched with dark humor, this book is a startlingly fresh view of a frightening epidemic.

About Norman F. Cantor

Norman F. Cantor was Emeritus Professor of history, sociology, and comparative literature at New York University. His many books include In the Wake of the Plague, Inventing the Middle Ages, and The Civilization of the Middle Ages, the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language. He died in 2004.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookwraiths on August 25, 2014

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor is a lecture-type book filled with some interesting facts and amusing side stories; it is easy to read at only 220 pages long and does not have a single footnote. While it might not be the in-depth analysis that med......more

Goodreads review by Priscilla on August 04, 2011

Cantor took a fascinating subject and basically threw away all the options he had to be interesting and craft a narrative with impact. His writing is basically what you'd expect from an academic (i.e., NOT a writer) trying to write for the popular market - he tries to engage the reader with stories......more

Goodreads review by Vincent on December 08, 2021

Interesting how much this book parallels what's happening today - which I am now convinced is not unique, but has happened numerous times over hundreds of years. The decrease in workers as a result of a pandemic gives them room to renegotiate their conditions and pay. History could be seen as a seri......more

Goodreads review by Robin on March 03, 2013

Well written and absorbing. This book offered me a lot of insights into not just what the plague did to Europe, but how it changed social structure, especially in regard to the role of wealthy women. Recommended highly.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 05, 2012

Norman Cantor’s slim little volume the Black Death is a great example of how to write a popular history. His main goal is to tell us, in broad strokes, what he thinks. He’s the well known professor out on the lecture circuit, not the Ph.D. candidate defending his thesis. There’s not a footnote in si......more