The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time
La 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 account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born
Print Book, English, 2006
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Harper Perennial, New York, 2006
History
xvii, 364, 16 pages : map ; 20 cm
9780060006938, 9780007150700, 0060006935, 0007150709
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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
"P.S. insights, interviews & more" ... front cover