Title: Desultory and Disappointing
Product review: Cantor's treatment of the economic, political and social dislocations effected by The Plague is fragmentary bordering on incoherent. The narrative lurches from largely unoriginal generalizations about epidemiology to financial microhistories of individual families to a vague summary of the state of Medieval medicine--all interesting in their own right but undeveloped and unintegrated by the author. Lazily written and seemingly unedited, the book could be cut to perhaps half its length. Cantor appends a good bibliography: I would urge interested readers to skip him and go directly to his sources.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
