Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire
Subtitle: A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780754630210
Subjects: Famine; Medical anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Medicine, Greek and Roman; General; Sociology; History: World; Ancient Rome; Byzantine Empire; Plague; Famines; Ancient - Rome; Epidemics; History
First sentence: The title above derives from Margaret Atwood's essay of the same name in which the author suggests that 'not just some, but all writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing is motivated, deep down, by a fear of and a fascination with mortality.'