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The Black Death, ed. and trans. Rosemary Horrox, Manchester Medieval Sources (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994). xiv + 364 pp. ISBN0-71903497-3, L40.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-7190-3498-1 L 14.99 (p/b). This painstaking work of compilation and translation orders some I z 5 extracts from diverse texts on the Black Death according to the following threefold division: 1. `Narrative accounts'; II. `Explanations and responses'; III. 'Consequences'. (Such an ordering, one notes, follows the...