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

Author: John Kelly
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Kelly
ISBN: 0060006927 9780060006921
OCLC Number: 56195003
Description: xvii, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: John Kelly.

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Kelly plunges the reader into the world of the Middle Ages, telling an age-old story with an air of immediacy and intimacy never before seen in plague literature, while drawing on the latest research  Read more...

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"A compelling and bone-chilling account."--Tampa Tribune

 
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