Last February 25th 2020 I got The Black Death book by Philip Ziegler, amazing book and a great deep dive even for non historians. 
Started to read when the news from the cruise in China were approaching the level of "hum, maybe this is it..." "Are they telling all the truth?" And also "it is far away"
Ironic that Ziegler points and exactly to that: regions and people farther away started to hear about the deaths in the East, and saying to themselves "too far away" and kept going on their businesses
From the Caspian sea to the Italian cities and across the Mediterranean the contagious spread like fire to all the European continent. Village after village were hit, like today some were spared. No planed, no trains, no cars, no tourists, no global economy...
The world was totally different and they were hit and started to die in masses and no one has any idea what was happening or what could be done. Fear spread, families let to die barricade on their own homes, the flagellants peaked during this time, and anti semitism was up
It influenced all the culture: books, paintings and architecture: death and escaping by chance were the only possible options
Excellent book to read and re read, to understand how it impacted and not the changes and evolution of medieval Europe. Learning from previous plagues to put in context today's: we developed vaccines in a year and we decoded the RNA of the virus!
Excelente recomendación este libro de Alex Richter-Boix:
https://twitter.com/BoixRichter/status/1190944651890573312?s=20De nuevo muchas gracias
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