black death

Ziegler, Philip. The Black Death. New York, 1969. A Review By Michelle Hammer History 513 – England to 1688 In Zieglers’ book The Black Death, he talks about the origins and nature of the bubonic plague. There was another factor in the Black Death. Not only was bubonic plague present, but also primary pneumonic or pulmonary plague which is more lethal. He discussed the fact that the bubonic plague was carried by fleas travelling on rats and that the …

…on them to convey to massive proportion of the population that died. He recognizes that these statistics could be slightly exaggerated but he doesn’t downplay the fact that there was mass destruction to the population. At least for me he broadened my knowledge, not only of the course it took and the massive destruction, but of the two different plagues that made up the Black Death and the course that they ran. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**