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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril."
- Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900),
The Picture of Dorian Gray,
the preface
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| | In the Wake of the Plague:
The Black Death and the World It Made
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| | by Norman F. Cantor
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ZIN Product Number: 10003708
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 Format: Paperback, 245 pages
Edition: 1ST PERENNIAL
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060014342
Release Date: Jan 8, 1996
| |  | | | In Brief
Arguing that the Bubonic Plague that killed over 40 percent of Europe's population had wide-reaching ramifications for all the institutions of the old social order, Cantor (history, sociology, and comparative literature; New York U.) looks at the effects of the disease on the various social classes and the changes it wrought in the economies, sciences, arts, and societies of Europe. He also explores the agricultural, ecological, and climactic factors that weakened Europeans immune systems to the extent that they were vulnerable to the disease and looks at whether the Plague may have had effects that have helped us be relatively more immune to AIDS.
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| | | | From The Publisher
In the Wake of the Plague presents a microcosmic view of the Plague in England (and on the continent), telling the stories of the men and women of the fourteenth century, from peasant to priest, and from merchant to king.
Cantor argues that despite the devastation that made the Plague so terrifying, the disease that killed more than 40 percent of Europe's population had some beneficial results. The often literal demise of the old order meant that new, more scientific thinking increasingly prevailed where church dogma had once reigned supreme. In effect, the Black Death heralded an intellectual revolution. There was also an explosion of art: tapestries became popular as window protection against the supposedly airborne virus, and a great number of painters responded to the Plague. Finally, the Black Death marked an economic sea change: the onset of what Cantor refers to as turbocapitalism; the peasants who survived the Plague thrived, creating Europe's first class of independent farmers.
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