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  • In the Wake of the Plague

  • The Black Death and the World It Made
  • By: Norman F. Cantor
  • Narrated by: Bill Wallace
  • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.2 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)
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Summary

Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren – the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure – are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was, and how it made history, remain shrouded in a haze of myths.

Norman Cantor, the premier historian of the Middle Ages, draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and groundbreaking historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death afresh, as a gripping, intimate narrative.

©2001 Norman F. Cantor (P)2003 Recorded Books

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Appalling failure of a book

This book is very patchy indeed. it is blatantly left wing and uses modern political groupings to describe medieval thinking, as if Marks and the Levellers were identical. it is also wrong on many points. However there are random interesting bits scattered about its haphazard chronology. It fails to inform one of any overview of the culture and economics of the period. Very disappointing.

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Great - a really interesting insight

The book was great. It provided insights into the black death in a lovely rambling way.

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Could do better

Basic things like Thomas Hardy,s stories being set in “Devon” instead of Dorset and some fairly unnecessary comments about the British just put me off and didn’t make me trust what was being said so I left it half listened to..
fairly amateur work .

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Author must be thankful....

....that treason goes unpunished these days! if you can get past the comments including that the English royalty of today have no taste! there are 'some' interesting factual elements.
its a shame that you have have some knowledge of the subject to discern what is opinion and what is based on fact. Would not recommend for any kind of research purposes!

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Ignorant and biased

It started ok, but soon descended into a politically biased, historically ignorant diatribe against the British and their Monarchy. I couldn’t face listening to the rest of it.

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