Frank Carlson Library

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.

Two brothers escape the Black Death by skipping forward in time, experiencing six centuries of change in six days. December 1348. The country is in the grip of the Black Death. Brothers John and William are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries- living each one of their remaining days ninety-nine years after the last. They choose...

The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

"The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four centuries, wiped out more than 25 million people in the course of just two years. With its vicious onslaught, life changed for millions of people almost instantaneously. Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918, to the eruption of COVID-19...

This book describes the diseases of the Middle Ages (500-1500 A.D.); the medicines; and the work of apothecaries, doctors, surgeons, and religious men and women in hospitals.

This book is a collection of essays discussing the Black Death, a contagious disease which left Europe depopulated and which brought about transformations in economic, social, and religious systems.

Describes twenty famous disasters, from eruption of Mount Vesuvius, to the sinking of the Titanic, to Hurricanes Andrew and Iniki.