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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made (2001)

av Norman Cantor

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The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren - the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the 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. Now, 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 as a gripping, intimate narrative.… (mer)
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A very general survey of the topic. A few interesting bits on remedies tried at the time along with some speculative fairy tales on origin. Not much in the way of personal histories, but the point of the book was the overall effect. ( )
  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |
Borrrrrrrinnnnnnnng.

Too many unrelated tangents...much more a story of what was going on in the world at the same time as the plague. Not at all what I was expecting and often very dull.

There were a few redeeming bits like the story about the certain kind of brass that disappeared in 1349 (his conclusion was that the maker died in the plague); or just the general idea that significant portions of history would have played out much differently had the plague not happened (an obvious conclusion but still an interesting thought.)

I also thought it was interesting that so much blame was placed on the Jews. It's an eye-opening study to look at all the ways throughout history that Satan has tried to rid the earth of God's chosen people.

But yeah, if you're looking for a giant yawner, this book is the book for you. ( )
  classyhomemaker | Dec 11, 2023 |
It took me more than a year, but tonight I finished this book. It's hard for me to review it because of my starts and stops. However, I can say that it started a lot stronger than it finished. The author, a pre-eminent middle ages historian, writes with a dryness befitting of his academic credentials. I had hoped this would be an engaging history of the black plague, however it read more like a personal indulgence of the knowledge of the author. Scattershot facts and unconnected anecdotes from the mid 14th century, without the singular focus on what caused the black death and how people dealt with it.

I found this book tucked into the back of a discount book store while traveling for work in Denver in the summer of 2019. I betrayed my own rule that life is too short to finish a book that's not keeping my attention. I guess I just kept hoping this would finally do something for me.

If you want an engaging history of the black death, I'd give this book a hard pass. I'm still looking for the "go-to" book on this topic. I'll keep hunting.

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Good quotes:

"You played the hand you were dealt, the life to which Christ had called you, and then it was over, frequently in childhood or adolescence, almost never after the age of fifty." -on the lifespan during the middle ages

"The nobility lived these short lives without a sense of irony. Funeral sermons delivered over the coffins by by mumbling bishops might indeed expatiate on the shortness and fragility of human life. But the nobility did not act that way, preferring the more visceral contact of the hunting dogs and hawks they loved than the anxiety-ridden, memory-dominated self-consciousness of affluent and well-educated people today."

"A consensus can be wrong." -about the causes of the black death
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  Valparaiso45 | Jul 27, 2022 |
A few critical reviews below have some measured points, and I thought I'd click some thumbs up and be done, but this book truly inspired me; the problem with most other reviews is that they seem to respect this book as being worthy of existence.

The book is rambling, repetitive muck.

By chapter 2 I had a mental sidebar of notes for a rage-review. I was so disgusted that I came to view Cantor's ridiculous overuse of the word "biomedical" as a major character flaw. It should have been thrown across the room after a few pages but I didn't want to damage anything more valuable than the book, like for example, anything. But it had to be finished. The final page had to be glimpsed. The depths had to be plumbed to see if I would run out of rope.

Some highlights for LibraryThing posterity:
Edward II's anal-rape murder "partly" reflected the Church's attitude toward homosexuality, but also reflected contemporary attitudes toward global weather patterns.
Edward III ravaged 25% of 1/3 of France.
Plantagenet Joan is constantly referred to as "little princess", so by the 3rd or 4th instance I am searching for endnotes to see if she was actually little, but no, it was just pointlessly derogatory.
In a spectacular display of relevance to plague transmission, Cantor spends an entire page of his measly 200 describing Joan's wardrobe (she had lots of buttons), seemingly for the sole purpose of punchlining the English monarchy's lack of taste "then or now".
Cantor refers to Joan as a "top-drawer white girl". That is top-shelf history right there. Approximately here I stopped cataloging disgust and just doggy-paddled the rest of the way through the slop. Slop which includes an entire section on the possibility of alien plague dust causing the epidemic.

Trees died for this - living, respirating, sun-loving trees. Absolutely, completely, unworthy of an NYU professor and Princeton Fellow, and perversely, so perversely, I am looking forward to reading Cantor's "Civilization", though I don't know if I'm searching for his redemption or more stench from the putrefaction of Academia.

This book is a plague about a plague and even reviews about it are a waste of time. ( )
1 rösta ShaneTierney | Feb 20, 2022 |
Good Writing, Great Social History

This book presents a quick look at the plague from many perspectives: social, medical, and historical. It is a survey of many, many sources and is written mostly from an ecclesiastical context, which is Cantor's specialty. The book is well-written with strong word choice, clear sentences, and accessible word choices.

I particularly enjoyed Cantor's look at the social perspective of the plague. One chapter in particular gave a good run-down of the literature on the relationship between labor and landowners. The author's conclusion is that laborers were not able to take advantage of the labor shortage "in the wake of the plague" because landowners and title-holding nobles were quick to suppress any such economic movements. Another chapter focused on the rather hideous attempts to blame Jews for the plague. Historical accounts of blaming Jewish people exist, but they lack context, which Cantor provides, and they also give little information other than numbers. Cantor adds Catholic church history to these numbers, which creates a grim picture of the plague's social consequences.

I have two qualms with "In the Wake of the Plague." The first is that the book could include many more examples of case studies rather than a few selected towns and a few selected dioceses. The second is that the historiography towards the end of the book seemed somewhat dated. An attempt was made to cite the upper Nile River as a potential source for the plague, an idea most genetic historians accept.

The book also includes a wonderfully complete "further reading" section and an index. It is a good introduction to the Black Death. ( )
  mvblair | Aug 8, 2020 |
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The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren - the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the 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. Now, 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 as a gripping, intimate narrative.

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