基本信息出版社：Harper Perennial
页码：272 页
出版日期：2002年04月
ISBN：0060014342
International Standard Book Number：0060014342
条形码：9780060014346
EAN：9780060014346
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was and how it made history remain shrouded in a haze of myths.

Now, Norman Cantor, the premier historian of the Middle Ages, draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and groundbreaking historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

作者简介 Norman F. Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. His academic honors include appointments as a Rhodes Scholar, Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow at Princeton University, and Fulbright Professor at Tel Aviv University. His previous books include Inventing the Middle Ages, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Civilization of the Middle Ages, the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language. He lives in southern Florida.

媒体推荐 "A most accessible, fascinating resource for high-school world history studies." -- Booklist

"Cantor illuminates intricate connections [that] allter the course of culture, religion, war, and peace in incalculable ways." -- Boston Globe

"[Cantor] makes a particularly compelling case." -- Publishers Weekly