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

Kelly, John, 1945- (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060006927
  • ISBN: 9780060006921
  • Physical Description: xvii, 364 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-341) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Chapter 1 Oimmeddam 1 -- Chapter 2 "They Are Monsters, Not Men" 29 -- Chapter 3 Day Before the Day of the Dead 53 -- Chapter 4 Sicilian Autumn 79 -- Chapter 5 Villani's Last Sentence 101 -- Chapter 6 Curse of the Grand Master 127 -- Chapter 7 New Galenism 163 -- Chapter 8 "Days of Death Without Sorrow" 183 -- Chapter 9 Heads to the West, Feet to the East 209 -- Chapter 10 God's First Love 231 -- Chapter 11 "O Ye of Little Faith" 259 -- Chapter 12 "Only the End of the Beginning" 273 -- Afterword: The Plague Deniers 295.
Subject:
Black Death > History.

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