Great Mortality An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

Name: Great Mortality An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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ISBN: 9780060006938

ISBN-10: 0060006935

ISBN-13: 9780060006938

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Authors: John Kelly

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La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

John Kelly grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin where his father u2019s best friend was an engineer on the Chicago & North Western. John has been collecting railroad photos, timetables and dining car menus for 20 years and has a large collection. In addition, he has written on railroad history for Trains magazine, Trains.com, Vintage Rails and Passenger Train Journal, and has authored a half dozen photographic books on vintage trains. John lives in Madison, Wisconsin where he is employed by the Wisconsin Technical College system as a computer technician.



Introduction



Oimmeddam



"They Are Monsters, Not Men"



The Day Before the Day of the Dead



Sicilian Autumn



Villani's Last Sentence



The Curse of the Grand Master



The New Galenism



"Days of Death Without Sorrow"



Heads to the West, Feet to the East



God's First Love



"O Ye of Little Faith"



"Only the End of the Beginning"


Afterword: The Plague Deniers


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index