2nd Edition
From the Brink of the Apocalypse Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages
By John Aberth
Copyright 2010
352 Pages
72 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
352 Pages
72 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
352 Pages
72 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Praise for the first edition:
"Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of York
The later Middle Ages was a period of unparalleled chaos and misery -in the form of war, famine, plague, and death. At times it must have... Read more
Chronology; Maps; Prologue; Famine; War; Plague; Death; Epitaph; Tables; Bibliography; Index
Biography
John Aberth lives and teaches in Vermont. He is the author of five books, including The First Horseman: Disease in Human History (2007), The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350 (2005), and A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film (2003).
