The Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt

by Leonard W. Cowie

Box N

Genres: Nonfiction

126 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Audrey · Rating 2 out of 5]

The basic information was provided in the most dry nuts and bolts way. It is short but not all that interesting.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Slightly dry, but has good basic information. Definitely piqued my interest in John Ball.

[Ken Sampson · Rating 3 out of 5]

[18 Aug 1999] An interesting and informative read.

[Vincentvanstop · Rating 2 out of 5]

Having read this in elementary school, I was pretty stunned about rereading it as a 30-something. What kid reads this stuff!? I remember so much of Boccaccio's writing from this, and my favorite image in the book is 'The Triumph of Death' from Palermo, though the book has a terrible bibliography and image I.D. section. The parts about the reformation and the English revolts are just as boring now as they ever were, but then I originally found this book looking up "Black Flag" in the card catalog, so an ultra young fan of Raymond Pettibon should probably get bored with details about royalty and such. There are a few other books I am going to check out, looking for scenes I thought were going to be in this book. There are some really great moments in the first half of this book for sure, maybe due to the heavy use of Boccaccio and other contemporaries paired with great images, but it really suffers from the lack of care given in the form of its citation.