Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
by Monica Helen Green (ed.)
Publisher: Arc Medieval Press 2014
ISBN-13: 9781942401049
Number of pages: 336
Description:
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in genetics, zoology, and epidemiology can enable a rethinking of the Black Death's global reach and its larger historical significance.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(19MB, PDF)
Similar books
![Book cover: The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929-1953](images/11680.jpg)
by Anita Pisch - ANU Press
This book is the first dedicated study on the marketing of Stalin in Soviet propaganda posters. Drawing on the archives of libraries throughout Russia, hundreds of previously unpublished posters are examined, with more than 130 reproduced in colour.
(6340 views)
![Book cover: Prince Henry the Navigator](images/1621.jpg)
by C. Raymond Beazley - G.P. Putnam's Sons
An account of the progress of geographical knowledge and enterprise in Christendom throughout the Middle Ages, as well as a life of Prince Henry the Navigator, who brought this movement of European Expansion within sight of its greatest successes.
(15460 views)
![Book cover: A Thousand Years of Russian History](images/7365.jpg)
by Sonia E. Howe - Williams and Norgate
The aim in this book is to convey general impressions of the various stages passed through by Russia in the course of her evolution, and to give sketches of the lives of those rulers who have stamped their era with the mark of their personality.
(11012 views)
![Book cover: A Short History of Russia](images/7472.jpg)
by Mary Platt Parmele - Charles Scribners' Sons
The book gives a good overview of the history of social and political life in the Russia from the earliest times to about the turn of the 20th century. The author's style is a flowing narrative that ties together the various historical events.
(10733 views)