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Description of  The Black Death: The History and Legacy of the Middle Ages' Deadliest Plague

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the plague written by survivors across Europe *Includes a bibliography for further reading The trend of recent research is pointing to a figure more like 4550% of the European population dying during a four-year period. There is a fair amount of geographic variation. In Mediterranean Europe, areas such as Italy, the south of France and Spain, where plague ran for about four years consecutively, it was probably closer to 7580% of the population. In Germany and England ... it was probably closer to 20%.. - Philip Daileader, medieval historian Read more