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Title: The Black Death (Great Disasters: Reforms and Ramifications) by Tracee de Hahn ISBN: 0-7910-6326-7 Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library) Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Summary: The history of the Black Death's sway over Europe 1348-1350
Comment: From 1348 to 1350 the Black Death ravaged Europe, cutting the population of the continent almost in half. This volume in the Great Disasters: Reforms and Ramifications series tells students the story of history's most famous epidemic. Tracee de Hahn begins with the first spread of the plague and addresses the origin of the disease. Other chapters deal with the impact of the Black Death in the year 1348, the natural disasters in the Far East and helped unleash the plague, and the horrors unleashed in every city of Europe from which there was no escape. Students will find the discussion of how physicians of the day tried to deal with the plague most interesting, although ineffective. But then, they thought it was a cloud of bad air from Asia, when it was really a rod-shaped bacteria spread primarily by flea and rat bites.

In an effort to avoid being sensationalist, the book focuses on the important reforms and ramifications that resulted from the plague. For example, the labor shortage that resulted meant peasants were able to demand wage increases and tax reductions, while survivors felt life was more available, which might have given the Renaissance its creative energy. De Hahn also presents the sobering fact that although modern doctors can cure all three forms of the plague, today a pandemic of plague still poses a threat to the world. Side-bars address related topics such as how the Middle Ages got its name and the Brotherhood of the Flagellants. The volume is illustrated with historic paintings and wood cuttings of the times and the epidemic, which complement the mostly anecdotal accounts of how the Black Death ruled Europe until it burned itself out. Students research this topic, or teachers looking for more stories about what it was like that go beyond their World History textbook, will find this volume quite useful.

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