T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

Struggling to Understand

Medical explanations for the Great Mortality: medieval and modern

Death arrives in Europe

The first accounts of Bubonic Plague in Fourteenth-Century Europe

Before the Black Death

Europe’s first major encounter with Yersinia pestis

Introduction

Pandemic!

The Dance of Death

Artistic and literary responses to the trauma

Searching for the Blame

Poisoned wells and other conspiracy theories

Where is on Earth is God?

Religious Explanations for the devastation

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