He has a mildly irritating tendency to repeat bits and pieces of information unnecessarily, but that is a minor complaint about a good book. In The Great Mortality John Kelly retraces the journey of the Black Death using original source material – diary fragments, letters, manuscripts – as it swept across Europe. Slumbering Vision 8. While the introduction of the plague and its causes was fantastic, the sections about the plague felt sparse at times. There was a problem loading your book clubs. There is no dispute that the Black Death, otherwise known as the “ Great Mortality, ” or simply “The Plague,” was a trans-continental disease which swept Europe and killed millions during the fourteenth century. The centuries have a neutralizing effect; I imagine they accepted what they called “the great mortality” as a fact of history in the same way I do.) Early in the century, "a great many things began to go terribly wrong" on the continent. Which it isn’t... . For more, see the adjacent Read-alikes column. 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 There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. This is, as Kelly's subtitle promises, an "intimate history" of the plague. Previous Next . But statistics can’t convey what it was like to sit in Siena or Avignon and hear that a thousand people a day are dying two towns away. Not that it was any help to the tens of millions who died during the plague, but Europe "emerged from the charnel house of pestilence and epidemic cleansed and renewed -- like the sun after rain.". I just feel like I am reading the same 10 paragraphs just change the country we are in and maybe and in a record of someone’s personal diary. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history, even more so now, when the notion of plague—be it animal or human—has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. It started sooner and finished later, gathering in distant threads and weaving them in to the story. Excellent book. New Love 14. If you have any interest in the Black Death and the Middle Ages in Europe, and you can appreciate the scholarship that went into this book, then order it right this minute! He endows. Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (August 21, 2012), Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019. Agnolo di Turo, Siena, 1348, In just over 1000 days from 1347 to 1351 the 'Black Death' swept across medieval Europe killing 30% of it's population. But John Kelly's. In trying to devise preventive schemes, authorities had few useful suggestions. While there is much that is not known about the great pestilence which struck Europe most savagely in 1348 to 1350, this much can be said: in all of human history, there has never been a most devastating event. I am now 27% completed with this book and bored to tears. Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2020. La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Unable to add item to List. He also reviews the various symptoms described by those who wrote about the plague, and what type, or types of plague, may have been involved. Intermission (4 Years Later) 7. How interestingly the author presented the rundown of those years and how all that (long-ago, thank God) carnage resulted in the flowering of the Renaissance. HarperCollins (2005), 356 pages. HarperCollins (2005), 356 pages. You May Also Like I enjoyed the book immensely, but sometimes it felt like things went a bit off track. Enough notaries, municipal and church authorities, physicians, and merchants stepped forward to keep governments and courts and churches and financial houses running -- albeit at a much reduced level. Even some I had thought of but had dismissed, he briefly discussed - the plagues repercussions being a ( but not the) precursor to the Reformation. 'The earth gaped wide,' says Friar Michele, 'and the donkey upon which the statue of the Mother of God was being carried became as fixed and immovable as a rock.' There simply was no choice: The plague had to run its course. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I just wish more of my resources had been like this at Uni. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. 364 pp. The Great Gatsby: Mortality Quotes. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 31, 2006). The book is often losing focus and is not nearly analytical enough. This will educate the heck out of you and it reads like a good novel. There is an immense literature about the Black Death, the catastrophic plague that swept through Europe in the middle of the 14th century, but the subject of death on a mass scale has acquired heightened urgency in recent years because of AIDS, genocide and the various threats posed by terrorism. Read the part about what happened when Becketf’s body was investigated. The Black Death The Great Mortality of 1348 1350 Author: John Aberth Publish On: 2016-12-23 This new edition continues to provide a fascinating account of the … THE GREAT MORTALITY AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF THE BLACK DEATH, THE MOST DEVASTATING PLAGUE OF ALL TIME by John Kelly ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 1, 2005 A ground-level illustration of how the plague ravaged Europe. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. No One Left 6. I pitched this book after seeing positive reviews and being interested in the topic and the fact that it was non-fidtion.the first 60 or so pages were amazing and full of detail. What a great and terrible history. It’ll creep you out and keep the pages turning. In The Great Mortality John Kelly retraces the journey of the Black Death using original source material – diary fragments, letters, manuscripts – as it swept across Europe. The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents - Ebook written by NA NA. If you have any interest in the Black Death and the Middle Ages in Europe, and you can appreciate the scholarship that went into this book, then order it right this minute! Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story: how many people died; how farm output and trade declined. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, but it may also cause septicaemic or pneumonic plagues. Intermission (2 Years Later) 4. . 0 likes. He notes the ripeness for disaster of the overpopulated, resource-depleted, ecologically stressed late-medieval Europe on which the plague descended, and in the most riveting chapter considers the outbursts of anti-Jewish violence by plague-panicked Gentiles, which the church tried, seldom successfully, to stem, and in which modern, racist anti-Semitism was forged.
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