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Author:

Kelly, John, 1945-

Title:

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

Edition:

1st Harper Prennial ed.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvii, 364, 16 p. : map ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Black Death--History.
Black Death--Europe.
Black Death--Sources.

Notes:

Donated by the History Club in honor of Preston Gates, Graceland University, 2009.

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" -- The plague deniers.

ISBN:

9780060006938 (pbk.)
0060006935 (pbk.)

Locations:

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ZYPE837 -- Harlan Community Library (Harlan)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)