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Sweeping from Asia into Europe, where its more appalling by-products included the Flagellants and the first great Jewish pogroms, the plague reached England in 1348. Philip Ziegler's classic account traces the course of the plague through Europe, and includes detailed chapters on the state of medicine, the position of the Church and the broader social and economic repercussions, as well as a fascinating reconstruction of life in a medieval English village suddenly overtaken by plague.
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Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe's inhabitants. Bringing total destruction, the plague was greeted with incomprehension and a terrified helplessness as it spread from Asia into Europe, reaching England in 1348. Philip Ziegler's classic account traces the course of the virulent epidemic through Europe and its dramatic effect on the lives of those whom it afflicted. It includes detailed chapters on the state of medical knowledge, the position of the church, and the broader social and economic repercussions such as well as a fascinating reconstruction of life in a medieval English village suddenly overtaken by plague. This second edition contains a new preface and a new chapter on the Black Death in recent historiography.
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Philip Ziegler was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford where he won the Chancellor's Essay Prize and got a first-class honours degree in law. He then entered the Foreign Service and served in Laos, Pretoria and Bogota. He retired in 1967 and joined the publishing company William Collins finally retiring as editor-in chief in 1980 to write a biography of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. He is the author of more than 10 books including the award-winning biography: Melbourne.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 014027524X
- ISBN 13 9780140275247
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