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The Black Plague The book I chose to read was titled The Medieval Plague: The Black Death of the Middle Ages. The author of the book is Geoffrey Marks. Doubleday & company, inc. in 1971, published The Medieval Plague: The Black Death of the Middle Ages in Garden City, New York. The book was a great source of information. It gave vast descriptions of many aspects of the plague. Some of the topics it covered were as …

…make up of whole towns and communities that it hit. Many of the important figures in the running of the town were killed from the plague. There was no food because the farmers died, there was no medicine because the doctors died, and there was no law enforcement because police and judges died. The Black Plague was an awful and disastrous disease. Much of the world was reshaped as a result of its four-year reign.