Chronology Overview: plague in the middle ages The black death and modern medicine The black death and medieval medicine Effects of the black death on European society Pychosocial reactions to the black death European art and the black death Individual and civic responses in Cairo and Florence Epilogue: The end of the black death and its continuing fascination
Biographies: Abu Abdullah ibn Battuta Charles IV Clement VI Francesco di Marco Datini da Prato Galen of Pergamum Gentile da Foligno Lisad-ad Din ibn al-Khatib Francesco Petrarch Alexandre Emile John Yersin
Primary documents: The description of the pestilence : from the Historiarum (after 1355)
"Wer wil nu wissen das" (c.1349-55)
Compendium de epidemia, Book 2 (1348)
"A diet and doctrine for the pestilence" (fifteenth century)
The treatise on the pestilence in Italian : Chapter 2 (c. 1447)
Last testament of Marco Datini of Prato, Italy, June 1, 1348
"Risal̄ah al-Naba' `an al-Waba'" : an essay on the report of the pestilence (1348)
Anonymous poem in the Chronicle of Damascus, 1389-97
"Disputation betwixt the body and worms"
The jews of Strassburg, February 1349
A Florentine diary : December 1496 to February 1499.
