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By Ole J. Benedictow. 433 pp., illustrated. Woodbridge, England, Boydell Press, 2004. $60. ISBN 0-85115-943-5.

Two theses form the structure of this book: that the Black Death was the bubonic form of the rodent disease Yersinia pestis and was spread by fleas, and that it killed 60 percent or more of Europe's population with its first strike alone. To sustain these theses, the author has divided the book into 34 chapters that chart the spread of the plague country by country, even to places where few, if any, sources survive. But in places without sources or where the appearance of the Black Death was not reported, Benedictow nonetheless asserts that the plague struck and, except . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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