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The Black Death
Philip Ziegler
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Revised preface by the author.
Bound in full cloth, blocked in red and gold foil with a design by Francis Mosley.
Set in Minion with San Marco display.
12 pages of colour plates.
9½" x 6¼", 296 pages.
Between 1347 and 1350, a horrifying plague swept across Europe, killing one third of the population. At its height the 'Black Death' claimed the lives of 600 Venetians every day; in Avignon alone 62,000 people fell victim; in Germany fear fostered appalling pogroms and flagellants took to the streets; in Britain entire communities were devastated. Contemporary medicine was both useless and bizarre, and religion provided little solace. Philip Ziegler's definitive history shows that even the most lurid imaginings would not have done justice to the horror of the reality.
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