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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 ed.

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xvii, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Black Death--History.
Plague--history.
Disease Outbreaks--history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780060006921
0060006927

LCCN:

2004054213

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