📚 The Black Death

The 1347 plague and the world it rearranged: mortality, flight, labour laws, and the flagellants.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject black death in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Black Death	Philip Ziegler	1969	34
	The black death	Johannes Nohl	1924	12
	The Great pestilence (A. D. 1348-9)	Francis Aidan Gasquet	1893	9
	The Great Mortality	John Kelly	2005	9
	Loimologia: or, An historical account of the plague in London in 1665	Nathaniel Hodges	1720	7
	King Death	Colin Platt	1996	6
	Black Death	J. F. C. Hecker	1885	5
	The Black Death	Robert S. Gottfried	1983	5
	The Black Death	J. F. C. Hecker	1885	4
	In the Wake of the Plague	Norman F. Cantor	2001	4
	Black Death	Ronald Mellor	2008	4
	The black death of 1348 and 1349	Francis Aidan Gasquet	1908	3
	Disaster and recovery	Jack Hirshleifer	1963	3
	The Black Death, 1347	George Deaux	1969	3
	The Black Death 1346-1353	Ole J. Benedictow	2004	3
	A Rural Society after the Black Death	L. R. Poos	2004	3
	The Black Death	Sean Martin	2007	3
	Plague!	John Farndon	2017	3
	After the Black Death	Susan L. Einbinder	2018	3
	The Black Death in the Middle East	Michael Walters Dols	2018	3
	World the Plague Made	James Belich	2022	3
	Ragionamento sopra la peste del anno 1576 ..	Burlacchino Burlacchini	1577	2
	Das grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351	Karl Lechner	1884	2
	The influence of the black death on the English monasteries ..	Peter George Mode	1916	2
	The black plague	Walter G. Oleksy	1982	2
	The black death	State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Conference	1982	2
	The black death	Robert Steven Gottfried	1983	2
	The role of St. Roch as a plague saint	Irene Vaslef	1984	2
	The Black Death	James Day (undifferentiated)	1989	2
	The English economy from Bede to the Reformation	A. R. Bridbury	1992	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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