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Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black 
Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague 
etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren - the hideous black 
welts, the high fever, and the final, 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.

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 afresh, 
as a gripping, intimate narrative.