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[โ€“] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Which black death book? There are many and I'd like to learn.

I'm assuming dancing plague is John Waller?

[โ€“] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

My memory fails me, here's what I have found on my bookshelf from the last few years

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by Kelly

The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by Waller

The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History by Benedictow