| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Book Review

Europe: Ancient and Medieval

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe. London: Arnold. 2002. Pp. x, 318.

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., does not mince words. The opening sentence of his new book announces the author's discovery: the so-called Black Death, the fearsome pandemic that killed Europeans on a massive scale in the fourteenth century, was "any disease other than the rat-based bubonic plague" (p. 1). Coming from anyone else, such an assertion might be dismissed out of hand. It flies in the face of an almost unanimous conviction, among both historians and natural scientists, that the Black Death was indeed the bubonic plague. Coming from Cohn, however, this heretical stance needs to be taken very seriously indeed, given the author's reputation and his well-known expertise when it comes to tabulating burials and testaments in early Renaissance Italy.

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