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

Author/creator Kelly, John, 1945-
Format Book
Edition1st Harper Prennial ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Harper Perennial, 2006.
Descriptionxvii, 364, 16 pages : map ; 20 cm
Subjects

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.
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.
ISBN0060006935 (pbk.)
ISBN9780060006938 (pbk.)

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Laupus Popular Reading Collection WC 355 K29G 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold