The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All TimeLa 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. |
Contents
chapter three The Day Before the Day of the Dead | 53 |
chapter four Sicilian Autumn | 79 |
chapter seven The New Galenism | 163 |
chapter eight Days of Death Without Sorrow | 183 |
chapter nine Heads to the West Feet to the East | 209 |
chapter eleven O Ye of Little Faith | 259 |
chapter twelve Only the End of the Beginning | 273 |
afterword The Plague Deniers | 295 |
Acknowledgments | 343 |
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