The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1843832143 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 454 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo.
"I am sure it is good." according to C. Jones. There are so many 'complete' stories of the black death.I am sure this one is just as compelling.. Shaky history Possibly I can inject a moderate voice into the rather polarized reviews so far. Benedictow certainly demonstrates, and so have many others, that bubonic plague was involved and could spread faster than we thought. On the other hand, he overgeneralizes local extreme kill rates, and he writes as if no other diseases were involved in the great death peak of 13Shaky history E. N. Anderson Possibly I can inject a moderate voice into the rather polarized reviews so far. Benedictow certainly demonstrates, and so have many others, that bubonic plague was involved and could spread faster than we thought. On the other hand, he overgeneralizes local extreme kill rates, and he writes as if no other diseases were involved in the great death peak of 1346. 6. A suggestion for the microbiologist reviewer E'beth B Please rethink your conclusions about this work. The authors whom you prefer have been shown to have used poor research methods and were at the further disadvantage (in the 1980s)of not having access to the DNA in the dental pulp extracted from known plague victims from both the second and third pandemics of plague. The pathogens causing modern diseases may ac
. Nonetheless, Benedictow tries to bring the two time frames closer together. However, he has read these reports selectively. To make the data from the two plagues fit, he not only argues that the mortality rate from the Black Death was greater than the records say, he also argues the opposite, asserting that the most authoritative population statistics for Florence, Italy, for instance -- those of Herlihy and Klapisch -- are wrong, simply because they do not square with the Y. For instance, statistics from Mallorca show mortality rates of only 23 percent, but Benedictow brushes them
Unique, sensational and shocking, this revelatory book provides, for the first time, a complete Europe-wide history of the Black Death. The author's painstakingly comprehensive research throws fresh light on the nature of the disease, its origin, its spread, on an almost day-to-day basis, across Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East and North Africa, its mortality rate and its impact on history. These latter two aspects are of central importance here, for it is demonstrated that the plague's death rates have consistently been under-estimated and that they were in fact much higher, making the disease's long-term effects on history even more profound.