Download or read book Remembering the Black Death written by B. E. Whalen and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of COVID-19, the memory of the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague, speaks to us in new and urgent ways. This book explores parallels, similarities, and divergences between the Black Death and the coronavirus outbreak for readers with their own experience of a global pandemic. B. E. Whalen received his PhD in medieval history from Stanford University in 2005. He currently resides and teaches in North Carolina.