About the Author

OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo.

Reviews

The thoroughness and precision of (Benedictow's) research are admirable. (...) Opens a treasure trove of correct information. There is no doubt that (the book) should be acquired by all university libraries. FIFTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIESEvery library that covers population studies, epistemology, or medieval history should have a copy of Benedictow's book. POPULATION STUDIES & DEVELOPMENTA book which should be on every Late-Medievalist's bookshelf. It is packed with valuable and well-considered accounts. ... A wonderful compilation of data which will be widely used for many years to come. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY(This) remarkable, engrossing and controversial study is the first to assemble and synthesize historical data from every region in which the Black Death wrought havoc. (...) An immense and entirely breathtaking feat of scholarship...and a moving quest to account for a cruel phenomenon. TLS(This) magisterial account mixes demographic research, meticulous reading of the chronicles and modern bacteriology. THE GUARDIAN The author...has achieved a Herculean task in reviewing a very large part of the literature on the pestilential disease or set of diseases that afflicted Europe from 1346 to 1353. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW A valuable addition to the historiography of the Black Death. Highly recommended. CHOICEAmbitious and contentious. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEWThose looking for a vast compendium of local data will not be disappointed. SPECULUM