In the Wake of the Plague. The Black Death and the World It Made. - CANTOR, NORMAN F.
The Black Death and the World It Made
KORTE INHOUD
Through profiles of merchants, peasants, priests, and kings, argues that despite devastation, the Black Death resulted in a scientific revolution, a new wave of art, and the emergence of independent farmers.
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Bound,half-cloth with original dustjacket, 245pp., 15x22cm., ills. in b/w., in very good condition. (dustjacket with light traces of use). ISBN 9780684857350.
New York The Free Press 2001
Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or less accurate. But what the...
New York The Free Press 2001
Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or less accurate. But what the...
