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The Great Mortality

John Kelly

What can the medieval Black Death teach us about the sudden epidemics that threaten to return?

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Author
John Kelly

Why read it

  • You will understand why pandemic disease can destroy worlds, not just individuals
  • You will see how panic during the plague turned medieval communities against their Jewish neighbors
  • You will weigh the case of scholars who deny that plague caused the Black Death against the traditional view

Who it is for

  • A reader of recent pandemic years who wants historical perspective
  • A history fan curious about medieval Europe under plague
  • A public health student studying how epidemics spread

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter One Oimmeddam
  3. Chapter Two “They Are Monsters, Not Men”
  4. Chapter Three The Day Before the Day of the Dead
  5. Chapter Four Sicilian Autumn
  6. Chapter Five Villani’s Last Sentence
  7. Chapter Six The Curse of the Grand Master
  8. Chapter Seven The New Galenism
  9. Chapter Eight “Days of Death Without Sorrow”
  10. Chapter Nine Heads to the West, Feet to the East
  11. Chapter Ten God’s First Love
  12. Chapter Eleven “O Ye of Little Faith”
  13. Chapter Twelve “Only the End of the Beginning”
  14. Afterword The Plague Deniers
  15. P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .
  16. About the book
  17. Read on

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