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Highlights
- "As exciting and readable an account as you could wish.
- Author(s): Philip Ziegler
- 336 Pages
- History, Europe
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Book Synopsis
"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.
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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. The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.
Review Quotes
"Fascinating. . . . There's nothing like reading about people being entombed to put your own problems in perspective." -- Bill Bryson
"As exciting and readable an account as you could wish." -- The Guardian
"The clarity and restraint on every page produce a most potent cumulative effect." -- Michael Foot, Evening Standard
"A welcome and much needed synthesis. . . . Ziegler writes in a precise and judicious style...illuminating his readers with the full impact of the plague." -- Choice