Part one: What was the Black Death
Why the history of the Black Death is important
Anatomy of a killer disease
Bubonic plague and the role of rats and flears
Plague: the Hydra-headed monster
The territorial origins of plague and of the Black Death
Part two: Spread of the Black Death
The Caucasus, Asia Minor, the MIddle East and North Africa
The southern Balkans: Albania, Macedonia, southern Yugoslavia, Greece and Bulgaria
The Kindom of Hungary: Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovakia, Hungary and western Romania
The Iberian Penisula: the Spanish kingdoms, the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Granada
Did some countries or regions escape? What happend in Iceland, Finland, Poland, and the Kingdom of Bohemia?
Part three: Patterns and dynamics of the Black Death
Patterns of conquest, dynamics of spread
Part four: Mortality in the Black Death
The medieval demographic system
Problems of source criticism, methodology and demography
France and the Conty of Savoy
How many died in the Black Death?
Part five: The Black Death: its impact on history
A turning point in history?
