The Black Death is most known for the twenty five million people that it stole lives from, but there is actually much more that can be learned about this infection then what meets the eye. Joseph P. Byrne, the author of Daily Life during the Black Death, uses the research that he obtained to describe a day during the time of the Black Death. Aside from writing Daily Life during the Black Death, Byrne is a European Historian and Associate Professor of Honors at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. He has published a number of articles on a variety of subjects that include everything from the Roman catacombs to American Urbanization. Byrne has also written another book called The Black Death. The purpose of the Daily Life during the Black
