Melody Murray's Books

So scholarly and dense that it takes awhile to sink in that the enormity of the carnage is so much worse than we've been taught before. My favorite book about the plague heretofore was Ziegler's classic The Black Death, but Benedictow reinterprets the same data and adds even more detail to the canon. The footnotes are as good as the text.I did find it fairly repetitive in spots. Not because of the repetitive nature of the disease entering a village and killing most everyone, but because Benedictow does have a tendency to bludgeon the reader with facts he's concerned we might miss. Still, an amazing piece of work.