In towns and cities the cemeteries were unable to provide space for all the dead, and violence and crime spiraled. One third of England's population died between the years 13, and over one thousand villages were deserted, never to be repopulated. By the autumn of 1347 the Black Death had reached the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, and the years that followed were to witness a horrifying and apparently relentless epidemic. "Ī series of natural disasters in the furthest reaches of the Orient during the third of the fourteenth century heralded what was, for the population of Europe, the most devastating period of death and destruction in its history. This study was described by the Guardian as …as exciting and readable an account as you could wish. See images for the condition of this book.īlurb: Philip Ziegler follows the course of the black plague as it swept from Asia into Italy and then into the rest of Europe. Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use.
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