The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval EuropeRobert S. Gottfried is Professor of History and Director of Medieval Studies at Rutgers University. Among his other books is "Epidemic Disease in Fifteenth Century England." |
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User Review - gbill - LibraryThing"The Black Death" is approachable, contains a lot of interesting stories which put the plague in context, and is informative. I was a little surprised at how much I liked it. Some of its more ... Read full review
Contents
A Natural History of Plague | 1 |
The European Environment 10501347 | 16 |
The Plagues Beginnings | 33 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe |
| Author | Robert Steven Gottfried |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Robert Hale, 1983 |
| Original from | University of California, Berkeley |
| Digitized | Oct 3, 2018 |
| ISBN | 0709012993, 9780709012993 |
| Length | 203 pages |
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