Overview
- The Seuil volume, drawn from his Collège de France course, is released in France on January 30 alongside fresh coverage in Télérama and an interview in L’Humanité.
- The book synthesizes origins, transmission and consequences to argue for a longue durée reading that rejects a sudden “world after.”
- Historians’ estimates cited in the work put European mortality at roughly 60–65% between 1347 and 1352.
- Reporting highlights the 1347 entry via Genoese galleys to Marseille and the 1894 identification of Yersinia pestis by Alexandre Yersin in Hong Kong.
- Documentary traces include early policy responses such as 1349 limits on wage increases and local measures like Orvieto’s pricing of funeral wax.