The Great Mortality
by John Kelly · first published 2005
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Chronicles the Great Plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century, documenting the experiences of people who lived during its height while describing the decline of moral boundaries that also marked the period.
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not OP but ... John Kelly: The Great Mortality An Intimate History of the Black Death Robert S Gottfried: The Black Death - Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.: Cultures of Plague: Medical Thought At the End of the…
on “Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up” ↗Isn’t this already a well known thing? I first learned of it reading The Great Mortality by John Kelly maybe eighteen years ago. An excellent book by the way; funnier than you might expect a history of the Black Death to be.
on “Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests” ↗…in a very powerful way – his ruminations concerning compassion, interacting with other people, the meaning and value of work and creativity). nfortunately, the only new book I read this year was "The Great Mortality", a pretty interesting but a tad too un-academic account of the Black Plague in Europe. Hopefully, I'll have a lot more time to read in 2015.
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?” ↗