I certainly like the thesis and revelations, but trying to study and even remember it is hard and I've seen people thereby interpreting it wildly. I believe that the structuring is the eay it is to build familiarity with the concepts and then relate them to the pinacle to the witch-hunts, but their inter-connection isn't always clear and it might be due to their simultaneous existence.
Sometimes or often there just isn't any genius behind the fabric of relation and things just happen, act and react.
Nontheless, the book could've elaborated some of it's statements because if you try to use this knowledge, next to the ever-present insecurity I feel when reading about post-plague consequences, the reasoning of each fact or its plausibility isnt clear.
It is thorough, but at the same time struggling to keep a threat as it recounts various facts and affairs. It must've been terribly hard writing it and I respect that.