“As exciting and readable an account as you could wish.” — The Guardian
“Fascinating.” – Bill Bryson
The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.
A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third of Europe’s people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history. Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler offers a critically acclaimed overview of this crucial epoch in a single masterly volume.
Author: Philip Ziegler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/07/2009
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780061718984
Language: English
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