The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time / John Kelly.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0060006927
  • 9780060006921
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC 172 .K445 2005
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" -- Afterword: The plague deniers.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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" -- Afterword: The plague deniers.

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.

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