The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time Paperback - 2006
by John Kelly
The author tracks the medieval plague from its beginnings in Central Asia to its devastating impact on the teeming cities of Europe, painting a vivid picture of what the end of the world looked like in the 14th century.
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THIS BOOK BEGAN AS AN INQUIRY INTO THE FUTURE AND ENDED as an investigation of the past.
From the rear cover
La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.
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- Title The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- Author John Kelly
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2006-01-31
- ISBN 9780060006938 / 0060006935
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.86 x 5.9 x 0.97 in (19.96 x 14.99 x 2.46 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: Central Europe
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Plague - History, Black Death - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 614.573
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- New York Times, 04/30/2006, Page 24
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