In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

Cantor, Norman F.

ISBN 10: 0060014342 / ISBN 13: 9780060014346

Edité par Harper Perennial, 2002

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• Titre: In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0060014342
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780060014346
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was and how it made history remain shrouded in a haze of myths.

Now, Norman Cantor, the premier historian of the Middle Ages, draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and groundbreaking historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

À propos de l'auteur

Norman F. Cantor was Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. His many books include In the Wake of the Plague, Inventing the Middle Ages, and The Civilization of the Middle Ages, the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language. He died in 2004.