The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time
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
Print Book, English, 2005
HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2005
History
xvii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780060006921, 9780060006938, 0060006927, 0060006935
56195003
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