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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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. |
Abstract:
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 to paint a new picture of the Black Death.
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"A compelling and bone-chilling account."--Tampa Tribune
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