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Thomas Asbridge

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Description:This vivid account the Plague moves beyond Christian Europe to the Muslim Near East, illustrating the truly international impact of humanity's greatest scourge on the medieval world.In 1347, a catastrophic plague fell on Europe and its neighbors, halving entire populations and causing untold suffering. The Black Death is, without question, one of the defining episodes in our history, and yet, one critical fact too often gets sidelined in our discussions of the this disease was not solely, or even primarily, a European phenomenon, but rather a catastrophe that touched the whole medieval world, oncluding the Muslim near and Middle East, the Byzantine Empire, north Africa and Asia.Thomas Asbridge, a historian at Queen Mary University of London, Asbridge treats the Black Death as the truly international phenomenon that it was, crisscrossing the globe to follow the plague’s appearance. Compiling over seven years of research, Asbridge brings the drama of this era to life through hundreds of eyewitness accounts. We're introduced to characters like Ibn al-Wardi, the Muslim writer who witnessed the plague’s onset in Syria, or Ibn Khaldun, who survived the Black Death in Tunis, and went on to develop a new academic framework for the study of human history. We meet people of all walks of kings and queens, peasants and merchants, and we also revisit familiar characters, like Chaucer and Petrarch, to get a sense of what it must have felt like to live through this period of horrific uncertainty. As Thomas Asbridge masterfully demonstrates, reducing the story of the Black Death to a Western narrative not only limits our view of the past, but it also makes it impossible to appreciate the pandemic’s true scale and long-term significance. The immediate repercussions of the Black Death, Asbridge shows us, were often felt most severely in the Muslim not only were mortality rates often higher, but the aftermath of disease weakened the mighty Mamluk Empire, contributing to its eventual fall. The Black Death first evokes the palpable existential terror of living through this plague, and with graceful clarity, illuminates its effects on almost every aspect of medieval life, including attitudes toward religion and death, the conduct of trade, the balance of political power, and the very structure and fabric of society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic. To get started finding The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This vivid account the Plague moves beyond Christian Europe to the Muslim Near East, illustrating the truly international impact of humanity's greatest scourge on the medieval world.In 1347, a catastrophic plague fell on Europe and its neighbors, halving entire populations and causing untold suffering. The Black Death is, without question, one of the defining episodes in our history, and yet, one critical fact too often gets sidelined in our discussions of the this disease was not solely, or even primarily, a European phenomenon, but rather a catastrophe that touched the whole medieval world, oncluding the Muslim near and Middle East, the Byzantine Empire, north Africa and Asia.Thomas Asbridge, a historian at Queen Mary University of London, Asbridge treats the Black Death as the truly international phenomenon that it was, crisscrossing the globe to follow the plague’s appearance. Compiling over seven years of research, Asbridge brings the drama of this era to life through hundreds of eyewitness accounts. We're introduced to characters like Ibn al-Wardi, the Muslim writer who witnessed the plague’s onset in Syria, or Ibn Khaldun, who survived the Black Death in Tunis, and went on to develop a new academic framework for the study of human history. We meet people of all walks of kings and queens, peasants and merchants, and we also revisit familiar characters, like Chaucer and Petrarch, to get a sense of what it must have felt like to live through this period of horrific uncertainty. As Thomas Asbridge masterfully demonstrates, reducing the story of the Black Death to a Western narrative not only limits our view of the past, but it also makes it impossible to appreciate the pandemic’s true scale and long-term significance. The immediate repercussions of the Black Death, Asbridge shows us, were often felt most severely in the Muslim not only were mortality rates often higher, but the aftermath of disease weakened the mighty Mamluk Empire, contributing to its eventual fall. The Black Death first evokes the palpable existential terror of living through this plague, and with graceful clarity, illuminates its effects on almost every aspect of medieval life, including attitudes toward religion and death, the conduct of trade, the balance of political power, and the very structure and fabric of society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic. To get started finding The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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