- Black Death, Sources, History, Surtos de doenças (história)
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- John Kelly
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060006921
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“THIS BOOK BEGAN AS AN INQUIRY INTO THE FUTURE AND ENDED as an investigation of the past.”
Popular historian and science writer, John Kelly is the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time and Three on the Edge: The Stories of Ordinary American Families in Search of a Medical Miracle. He has written about medicine, history, and psychology.
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