
The Black Death
"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.
- Författare
- Philip Ziegler
- ISBN
- 9780061718984
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 249 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2009-04-01
- Förlag
- HARPER PERENNIAL
- Sidor
- 336
