Black Death/Bibliography

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Primary Sources

• Boccaccio, Decameron.

Secondary Sources

• Benedictow, Ole J. The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History. DS Brewer, 2006.

• Carmichael, Ann G. Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

• Cohn, Samuel. The black death transformed : disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

• Dols, Michael. The Black Death in the Middle East. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

• French, R. (ed.) Medicine from the Black Death to the French disease. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Pub., 1998.

• García Ballester, Luis. (ed.) Practical medicine from Salerno to the black death. Cambridge; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

• Little, Lester K. (ed.) Plague and the end of antiquity : the pandemic of 541-750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

• McCormick, Michael. "Rats, Communication, and Plague: Toward an Ancient and Medieval Ecological History," in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 34, Number 1, Summer 2003, pp. 1-25.

• McNeill, William H. Plagues and Peoples. Updated ed. Anchor, 1998.

• Park, Katharine. Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.

• Ziegler, Philip. The Black Death. New York: John Day Co., 1969. Out of date in many respects, but still a good narrative of the events of the Black Death.