norman f cantor in the wake of the plague

However, it is simultaneously informative and entertaining.

I'm all for vivid description, but name calling and snide asides have no place in a history book. ' He tends to use blatantly biased and harsh language in describing historical figures. Sadly, the title is a bit misleading, as it really doesn't go very in depth into what happened after. ' A quick read and somewhat forgettable, but it does give a basic understanding of what life was like during the plague. And although some of what he writes has something to do with the plague and its aftermath, much of it seems like random conversation about the Middle Ages. There is no real logic to the organization of facts. ' It feels like this author made notes on index cards, shuffled them, and published a book. ' Excellent in details that you won't find anywhere about this disease and the effects it had on society. If you were obsessed with the Black Plague then maybe, MAYBE, you'd enjoy this book but anyone other than a Plague fanatic needs to stay away as if this book was the Plague. Of course this could be due to the fact that I was required to read it as a a summer assignment for school. ' There is a lot of information, and sometimes it overwhelms the structure. ' A bit dry, but interesting if you can get through the sloggy bits. and in every paragraph he uses like 10 words I don't know, probably to sound smart. it's really just this old guy raving on about the 14th century and all these things that were slightly affected by the plague.

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Norman f cantor in the wake of the plague