The Black Death

Further Reading

Samuel K., Jr. Cohn, Death and Property in Siena 1205-1800: Strategies for the Afterlife (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), ch 5 ‘High Culture’

Samuel K., Jr. Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), xiv+429 pp. (reprinted in paperback, 1997), any chapter (perhaps 4, the structure of piety; or 7 painting)

Samuel K., Jr. Cohn, The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe (London: Edward Arnold, May, 2002 in the UK and Oxford University Press, in the US), xii+318 pp. ISBN 0 340 70646 5 (Hb); ISBN 0 349 70647 3 (Pb), ch. 9 ‘Culture and psychology’

Samuel K., Jr. Cohn, Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 (Cambridge, Ma., Harvard University Press, 2006). ISBN 0-674-02162-2; x+376 pp., ch. 10 ‘A new Appetite for Liberty’

David Herlihy and Samuel K., Jr. Cohn, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1997), x+122 pp.

Ole J Benedictow, The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History (Woodbridge, 2004) 0-85115-943-5

William Naphy and Andrew Spicer, The Black Death: A History of Plagues 1345-1730 (Stroud, 2001) 0-75242-308-8

Philip Ziegler, The Black Death (Harmondsworth, 1970) 0-14021-189-6