Black Death

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Harper Collins, 1969 - 319 páginas

A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third of Europe's people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history. Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler offers a critically acclaimed overview of this crucial epoch in a single masterly volume. The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.

 

Índice

PREFACE
9
Origins and Nature
13
The State of Europe
30
Italy
33
the State of Medical Knowledge
63
the Flagellants and the Persecution of the Jews
84
The rest of Continental Europe
110
the West Country
117
Hygiene and the Medieval City
151
Sussex Kent and East Anglia
161
page 9
298
13
300
40 63 84 110 117 137 151 161
315
The Midlands and the North of England 174 XII The Welsh Borders Wales Ireland and Scotland 187
316
The Social and Economic Consequences 232 XVI Education Agriculture and Architecture XVII The Effects on the Church and Mans Mind 252 259 ...
317
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Progress Across the South
137

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Sobre el autor (1969)

Philip Ziegler was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. A former member of the diplomatic service, he has written biographies of King William IV, Lord Melbourne, Lady Diana Cooper, Lord Mountbatten, King Edward VIII, Harold Wilson, and Osbert Sitwell. His most recent book is Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes Scholarships. He is at work on the official biography of Prime Minister Edward Heath. Mr. Ziegler lives with his wife in Kensington, London.

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