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The Great Mortality - An Intimate History of the Black Death (Paperback)
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The Great Mortality - An Intimate History of the Black Death (Paperback)
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A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the
mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of
the worst human disasters in history. 'The bodies were sparsely
covered that the dogs dragged them forth and devoured them...And
believing it to be the end of the world, no one wept for the dead,
for all expected to die.' Agnolo di Turo, Siena, 1348 In just over
a thousand days from 1347 to 1351 the 'Black Death' travelled
across medieval Europe killing thirty per cent of its population.
It was a catastrophe that touched the lives of every individual on
the continent. The deadly Y. Pestis virus entered Europe in October
1347 by Genoese galley at Messina, Sicily. In the spring of 1348 it
was devastating the cities of central Italy, by June 1348 it had
reached France and Spain, and by August England. At St Mary's,
Ashwell, Hertfordshire, an anonymous hand carved the following
inscription for 1349: 'Wretched, terrible, destructive year, the
remnants of the people alone remain.' According to the Foster
scale, a kind of Richter scale of human disaster, the plague of
1347-51 is the second worst catastrophe in recorded history. Only
World War II produced more death, physical damage, and emotional
suffering. Defence analysts use it as the measure of thermonuclear
war - in geographical extent, abruptness and casualties. In 'The
Great Mortality' John Kelly retraces the journey of the Black Death
using original source material - diary fragments, letters and
manuscripts. It is the devastating portrait of a continent gripped
by an epidemic, but also a very personal story, narrated by the
individuals whose lives were touched by it.
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