The Black Death

• Author of ‘Utrum Mortalitas…’ (‘Is it from Divine Wrath that the Mortality of These Years Proceeds?’), Sudhoff, Archiv XI, 44–51. Ascribed by S. Guerchberg (‘La controverse sur les prétendus semeurs de la Peste Noire’, Revue des Études Juives, Vol. VIII, p. 3, 1948) to Konrad de Megenberg.

• Abū ’Abdallah Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdallāh Ibn Sa’īd Ibn Al-Khatīb Lisânal-Din (referred to generally as Ibn al-Khatīb). Translated into German in Sitzungsberichte der Königl. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschafenzu München, II, (Munich, 1863), 1–28 by M. J. Müller.

• Konrad de Megenberg, Buch der Natur, ed. Pfeiffer, 1870.

• Dionysius Colle (De pestilentia 1348–1350 et peripneumonia pestilentiali). D. J. Colle, Benonensi, Pisa, 1617, pp. 570–76.

• Author of ‘Primo de Epydimia…’ Sudhoff, Archiv V, (1913) 41–6.

• Simon of Covino, Bibl. de l’École des Chartes (1840–41), ed. E. Littré, Sér 1, Vol. 2, pp. 201–43.

• John of Burgundy (John à la Barbe). (Published 1371 but mainly relating to epidemic of 1348–9.) Ed. D. W. Singer, Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., Vol. 9, Pt. 2, p. 159.

• Guy de Chauliac, La Grande Chirurgie, ed. F. Nicaise, Paris, 1890.

THE BLACK DEATH IN RECENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

It was towards the end of 1969, in the same year that Philip Ziegler’s The Black Death was first published, that the influential French journal Annales: Economies Sociétés Civilisations included a substantial section on ‘Maladies et Mort’, introduced by a survey article by Jean-Noël Biraben and Jacques Le Goff on ‘La Peste dans le Haut Moyen Age’ (pp. 1484–1510). And there then followed a similar concentration on death-related themes in the Revue du Nord for 1983, where Walter Prevenier and other Low Countries specialists – starting with Prevenier’s own paper on ‘La démographie des villes du comté de Flandre aux xiii^e et xiv^e siècles’ (pp. 255–75) – discussed the comparable experience of the North-West. In the interval, Dr Biraben had presented what is still the most extended historical analysis of the West European plague in his Les hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et mediterranéens (Paris, 1976), and Michael Dols’s valuable study of The Black Death in the Middle East (Princeton, 1977) had been published. More recently, Ole Jorgen Benedictow’s book on Plague in the Late Medieval Nordic Countries (Oslo, 1993) has covered the same ground for Iceland, Scandinavia and Northern Germany. Each of these books contains a comprehensive bibliography of the literature on plague in many languages. What follows is a bibliographical essay on the post-1969 English-language works which may be of interest to new readers of Ziegler’s classic.