These and other questions are answered by Norman Cantor, who presents his research and opinions as well as those of other eminent scholars and historians.
232.ĭid you know that the children’s rhyme ‘Ring Around the Rosies’ was first sung in sixteenth-century England and describes the flu-like symptoms, skin discoloration and death caused by the bubonic plague? Did you realize that the massive migration of Jews to the Baltic countries, Poland and Russia from Western Europe was a direct consequence of the Black Death? Did you ever suspect that the pandemic that struck Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century may not have been caused just by a bacillus carried by flea-ridden rats, but rather by anthrax, a cattle disease very similar to mad cow disease?
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