The Great Mortality, or The Black Death: Primary and other Sources

"A vain attempt by the king to freeze wages paid to laborers at their pre-plague levels, the ordinance is indicative of the labor shortage caused by the Black Death. It also shows the beginnings of the redefinition of societal roles."

An account of the Justinian Plague that raged throughout Byzantium some 800 years before the late 14th century outbreak.