Norman F, Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. Cantor sections his book to explain to his readers the effects of the plague that caused so much destruction. The Black Death was a pandemic that occurred in the 1300s and left civilizations destroyed from the massive amount of people it killed. Cantor explains that there will most likely always be a degree of uncertainty about the plague because of the limitations from the medical profession in the fourteenth century. Cantor brings attention to the question of whether the plague solely consisted of the bubonic plague or if there was another disease occurring simultaneously. Bubonic plague is a rod-shaped bacterium that is carried
