In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by Norman Cantor
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0060014342
- ISBN 13
- 9780060014346
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Harper, New York, 2003. 11th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.
Ring around the rosies,
A pocketful of posies,
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down.
—"Ring Around the Rosies," a children's rhyme about the Black Death
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking some 20 million 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.
Ring around the rosies,
A pocketful of posies,
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down.
—"Ring Around the Rosies," a children's rhyme about the Black Death
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking some 20 million 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.
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- Title
- In the Wake of the Plague
- Author
- Norman Cantor
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 11th printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060014342
- ISBN 13
- 9780060014346
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-Fiction; History;
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