Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe Hardcover - 2006
by William Rosen
A richly told story of the collision between nature's smallest organism and history's mightiest empire
The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. In his capital at Constantinople he built the world's most beautiful building, married its most powerful empress, and wrote its most enduring legal code, seemingly restoring Rome's fortunes for the next five hundred years. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea. The ensuing outbreak of bubonic plague killed five thousand people a day in Constantinople and nearly killed Justinian himself.
In Justinian's Flea, William Rosen tells the story of history's first pandemic a plague seven centuries before the Black Death that killed tens of millions, devastated the empires of Persia and Rome, left a path of victims from Ireland to Iraq, and opened the way for the armies of Islam. Weaving together evolutionary microbiology, economics, military strategy, ecology, and ancient and modern medicine, Rosen offers a sweeping narrative of one of the great hinge moments in history, one that will appeal to readers of John Kelly's The Great Mortality, John Barry's The Great Influenza, and Jared Diamond's Collapse.
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- Title Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
- Author William Rosen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 367
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, New York, NY
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9780670038558 / 0670038555
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.46 x 6.56 x 1.26 in (24.03 x 16.66 x 3.20 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Byzantine Empire - History - To 527, Byzantine Empire - History - Justinian I,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006051761
- Dewey Decimal Code 949.501
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