Black Plague


Year of Wonders
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
Company of Liars
Hamnet
Between Two Fires
The Stone Witch of Florence
The First Eagle (Leaphorn  & Chee, #13)
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum (Sign of the Sugared Plum, #1)
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Last Hours (Black Death, #1)
The Scribe of Siena
The Stolen One
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
167 books — 71 voters
Spillover by David QuammenThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsGet Well Soon by Jennifer   WrightPandemic by Sonia Shah
Pandemics and Epidemics (nonfiction)
127 books — 16 voters

Cynthia Hand
The odds of surviving are not good for serfs, or clerics, since they tended the sick, but miraculously I survive. Mr. Erikson rewards me with a laminated badge that reads, I SURVIVED THE BLACK PLAGUE. Mom will be so proud.
Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

Barbara W. Tuchman
In Siena, where more than half the inhabitants died of the plague, work was abandoned on the great cathedral, planned to be the largest in the world, and never resumed, owing to loss of workers and master masons and “the melancholy and grief” of the survivors. The cathedral’s truncated transept still stands in permanent witness to the sweep of death’s scythe. Agnolo di Tura, a chronicler of Siena, recorded the fear of contagion that froze every other instinct. 'Father abandoned child, wife husba ...more
Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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POSIES [AN ADVANCED RP] ▂▂▂ ▂▂▂▂“σηℓу ρσѕιєѕ cαη ѕανє уσυ ησω, ∂єαя” ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ London, England, 1348. A dark shadow has …more
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