Title: Disappointing, Misleading
Product review: Cantor's discussion of the origins and impact of the plague is, at best, cursory. This book reads more like a series of case studies of medieval persons - an archbishop, a wealthy family, a princess. The case studies have the common thread of persons dying of the plague. However, Cantor uses this as a pretext to discuss - in colorful detail - the lives, achievements and ideologies of these persons. For example, I found the discussion about Aristotlean and Thomist logic distracting and irrelevant to the plague. This is a readable introduction to medieval England (the case studies are predominantly English), but certainly not an enlightening discussion of the plague phenomenon.
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