The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague by Dorsey Armstrong

The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague

The Great Courses

Dorsey Armstrong

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced

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Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death was arguably the most significant event in Western history, profoundly affecting every aspect of human life, from the economic and social to the pol...

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