They are diverse and long standing, extending to the present with the population depleted, the peasants could claim land for themselves, creating Europe's first class of independent farmers, hastening the modern capitalist era the Catholic Church, powerless in the face of such disaster, watched as the faith healers became influential efforts to block windows and doors against supposed airborne germs with woven tapestries generated a whole textile industry. Arguably the greatest biomedical disaster in history - the Black Death wiped out 40% of the European population - the results are not confined to figures of mass fatality.
It is a fascinating investigation into how the Plague rocked the sociological, commercial, cultural and religious foundations of medieval civilisation. IN THE WAKE OF THE PLAGUE is a social history, not just of collapse but of rebirth.
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