![]() ![]() In this particular case, it has resulted in a predictable, though curious, imbalance of treatment. Like most English writers on the Middle Ages, he tends to view England as the focal point of the medieval period a view which, however satisfying to the British ego, is quite without foundation in fact. That he does not succeed is not due to any defect in scholarship or to any opacity of style, but rather to an inadequate perspective. Ziegler's intention to provide a popular account. Sticker's teutonically thorough and multivoluminar Die Pest-an opus which can be approached only when armed with adequate patience and more than adequate German. Coulton and of Cardinal Gasquet are outdated, and the sole authoritative general work has been G. ![]() The story of the Black Death-the great plague that swept over, and decimated, Europe in the fourteenth century-is one that, to a large extent, eludes the reader of English. ![]()
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