Title:
The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time / John Kelly.
Author:
Kelly, John, 1945-
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2006.
Call Number:
RC172 .K445 2006
Abstract:
Chronicles the Great Plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century, documenting the experiences of people who lived during its height while describing the decline of moral boundaries that also marked the period.
Edition:
1st Harper Prennial ed.
ISBN:
9780060006938
Physical Description:
xvii, 364, 16 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Oimmeddam -- "They are monsters, not men" -- The day before the day of the dead -- Sicilian autumn -- Villani's last sentence -- The curse of the grand master -- The new galenism -- "Days of death without sorrow" -- Heads to the west, feet to the east -- God's first love -- "O ye of little faith" -- "Only the end of the beginning" -- The plague deniers.
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