The Great Mortality
Subtitle: An intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time
By: John Kelly
Edition: 1st Harper Prennial ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780060006938
Subjects: Black Death; Sources; Surtos de doenças (história); Doenças transmissíveis (história); History
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Oimmeddam; title: "They are monsters, not men"; title: The day before the day of the dead; title: Sicilian autumn; title: Villani's last sentence; title: The curse of the grand master; title: The new galenism; title: "Days of death without sorrow"; title: Heads to the west, feet to the east; title: God's first love; title: "O ye of little faith"; title: "Only the end of the beginning"; title: The plague deniers.