TY - BOOK AU - Kelly,John TI - The great mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time SN - 0060006927 AV - RC 172 .K445 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - HarperCollins Publishers KW - Black Death KW - History KW - Plague KW - history KW - Disease Outbreaks N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -