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TitleThe black death : a global history of humanity's most devastating pandemic / Thomas Asbridge.
AuthorAsbridge, Thomas S., author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpdVgJhV3ytqpg3x3KWXd.
Call No616.923 Asbridge
CollectionNon-Fiction
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International Standard Book Number 9780593129166
International Standard Book Number 0593129164
Personal Name Asbridge, Thomas S., author.
Title Statement The black death : a global history of humanity's most devastating pandemic / Thomas Asbridge.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : Random House , 2026.
Physical Description xix, 513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, color photographs ; 25 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [443]-491) and index.
Summary, Etc. In the mid-fourteenth century, a lethal plague struck the medieval world, causing unimaginable suffering and destruction. The Black Death was unquestionably one of history's defining episodes, yet a critical feature of its progress has often been ignored: the disease was not confined to Europe, but rather affected almost all of the known world, including the Near and Middle East, Byzantium, north Africa and Asia. Tracing the pandemic's course across the medieval globe, The Black Death contrasts the experiences of different peoples, including Christians, Muslims, and Jews, charting this catastrophe's transformative effects on diverse aspects of medieval life. And crucially, Asbridge demonstrates that the plague was often at its most destructive in the Islamic world, where it ultimately played a role in the collapse of the mighty Mamluk Empire. The Black Death also brings the human drama of this calamitous era to life, evoking the terror and the turmoil that beset cities such as London, Cairo, and Florence. Asbridge reconstructs the lives of the men, women and children who faced the Black Death--from ruling monarchs to peasant farmers--laying bare both the abject horror they endured and the courageous resolve they often demonstrated while striving to survive. Uncovering a story that speaks to our own age, The Black Death highlights humankind's capacity for compassion and resilience amidst a global crisis to explain how the medieval world confronted, and ultimately overcame, this shattering pandemic.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Black Death (OCoLC)fst00833602.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Plague 14th century Juvenile literature.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Plague 14th century.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Epidemics History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World history (OCoLC)fst01181345.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Plague History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Diseases and history.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Peste (CaQQLa)201-0031866 14e siècle (CaQQLa)201-0373727 Ouvrages pour la jeunesse. (CaQQLa)201-0377026.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Peste (CaQQLa)201-0031866 14e siècle. (CaQQLa)201-0373727.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Black Death History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Peste noire (CaQQLa)201-0031871 Histoire. (CaQQLa)201-0378888.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Maladies et histoire. (CaQQLa)201-0071502.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Peste (CaQQLa)201-0031866 Histoire. (CaQQLa)201-0378888.
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