The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time, by John Kelly. In most cases, items shipped from Amazon.com may be returned for a full refund. Please try your request again later. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Excellent book. If you have any interest in the Black Death and the Middle Ages in Europe, and you can appreciate the scholarship that went into this book, then order it right this minute! It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. I read this book years ago (like 2013). Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. But statistics can’t convey what it was like to sit in Siena or Avignon and hear that a thousand people a day are dying two towns away. 'The Great Mortality' April 3, 2005 Feodosiya sits on the eastern coast of the crimea, a rectangular spit of land where the Eurasian steppe stops to dip its toe into the Black Sea. Or to live in a society where the bonds of blood and sentiment and law have lost all meaning, where anyone can murder or rape or plunder anyone else without fear of consequence. Or to have to chose between your own life and your duty to a mortally ill child or spouse. The best book I have read on the Black Death so far. Written for the lay reader rather than the scholar, it conveys in excruciating but necessary detail a powerful sense of just how terribly Europe suffered, and just how resilient it was in the face of what seemed to many certain extinction. This is, of course, way too simplistic a theory, but it is nice to know others think along the same lines. Though previous and subsequent epidemics moved relatively slowly, this one marched from place to place with such speed that "several medieval medical authorities were convinced the disease was spread via glance." I enjoyed the book immensely, but sometimes it felt like things went a bit off track. Not that it was any help to the tens of millions who died during the plague, but Europe "emerged from the charnel house of pestilence and epidemic cleansed and renewed -- like the sun after rain.". In one, 'a black dog with a naked sword in its paw' rushes into a church and smashes the silver vessels, lamps, and candlesticks on the altar. The Great Mortality is an admirable work of popular history, a genre too often derided by scholars. Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2020. It would then be an excellent starting point for further exploration into more Plague History, the guideposts are all here. It is harrowing portrait of a continent gripped by an epidemic, but also a very personal story narrated by … Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. 'The Great Mortality' April 3, 2005 Feodosiya sits on the eastern coast of the crimea, a rectangular spit of land where the Eurasian steppe stops to dip its toe into the Black Sea. John Kelly’s, The Great Mortality, is a well written piece of history about a period we’ve all heard about (the black death), but to which we don’t give much thought. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born. Overall, an interesting read considering the times. The modern analysis of surviving records indicates that the mortality rate throughout Europe averaged at least 50 percent. I read this book years ago (like 2013). So many books go into dry statistics but this covers all angles in an engaging way that actually makes you think about the individuals lost to history. Occasionally interesting, but it has little to do with the plague. Chapter 2 Nick Carraway. In The Great Mortality John Kelly retraces the journey of the Black Death using original source material – diary fragments, letters, manuscripts – as it swept across Europe. In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people—one third of the known population—before it vanished. Read the part about what happened when Becketf’s body was investigated. Overall, an interesting read considering the times. Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2018. The Great Gatsby: Mortality Quotes. In his non-fiction book The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (2005), American historian John Kelly examines the Great Plague that swept through Europe and Asia during the fourteenth century, killing up to 200 million people, including about one-third of Europe's total population over the span of five years. I don’t know if there just is not a lot of research to pull from or if the author was more interested in the science and less in the history. THE tsunami that scoured the … The plague would have been devastating in any circumstances, but those of mid-14th-century Europe were especially hospitable to it. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time - Ebook written by John Kelly. The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality, or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Kelly argues that to this day, the plague remains "the greatest natural disaster … It killed 60 percent in many places, even more in self-contained communities, such as monasteries--in all, one-third of Europe's people. The trip was so much more interesting as a result. It was a catastrophe that touched the lives of every individual on the continent. I pitched this book after seeing positive reviews and being interested in the topic and the fact that it was non-fidtion.the first 60 or so pages were amazing and full of detail. Highlight, take notes, and search in the book. Apr 24, 2021 - The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history, even more so now, when the notion of plague—be it animal or human—has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in … Review Quotes "A compelling and eminently readable portrait." After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time, by John Kelly. Read with the free Kindle apps (available on iOS, Android, PC & Mac), Kindle E-readers and on Fire Tablet devices. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The author so often runs off on tangents that the reader is left with the impression he has forgotten what he is writing about. Read the part about what happened when Becketf’s body was investigated. Enough time to think and wonder and worry.". France? This is, of course, way too simplistic a theory, but it is nice to know others think along the same lines. It tells you so much about the horrors of the time and how we managed to get through it. Among these were awful weather -- "earthquakes, floods, tidal waves, heavy rains and winds" -- that left crops "stunted and waterlogged" and brought uncountable thousands to the edge of starvation; pervasive waste and filth, rich breeding grounds for rats; endless and increasingly savage warfare, which made "the medieval battlefield and the medieval soldier more efficient agents of disease." In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people—one third of the known population—before it vanished. It started sooner and finished later, gathering in distant threads and weaving them in to the story. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. As one wrote: "Instantaneous death occurs when the aerial spirit escaping from the eyes of the sick man strikes the healthy person standing near and looking at the sick." I also liked the way the author followed the progress of the plague from place throughout the book. This sweeping, viscerally exciting book contributes to a literature of perpetual fascination: the chronicles of pestilence. Share to Reddit. This is, as Kelly's subtitle promises, an "intimate history" of the plague. He has a mildly irritating tendency to repeat bits and pieces of information unnecessarily, but that is a minor complaint about a good book. As Kelly puts it, "the plague bacillus, Yersinia pestis, swallowed Eurasia the way a snake swallows a rabbit -- whole, virtually in a single sitting. HarperCollins (2005), 356 pages. Western Europe is the primary focus of Kelly's compact history, which is "intimate" in that it highlights many particular persons' passages through the crucible years, 1348-49. The author takes us all over the place: What was the Plague like in Constantinople? Whoa. In raw numbers that means that between 1347, when the plague arrived in Sicily, and 1352, when it appeared in the plains of Moscow, the continent lost twenty-five million of its seventy-five million inhabitants.". There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Many thanks to the seller too who is very good. It was one of the most devastating human disasters in history. Lyrically 'The Great Mortality' delves into the dark and macabre history of the Black Death that swept across Europe from 1348 onward. Extremely detailed, but also very readable. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born. Or to have to chose between your own life and your duty to a mortally ill child or spouse. While there is much that is not known about the great pestilence which struck Europe most savagely in 1348 to 1350, this much can be said: in all of human history, there has never been a most devastating event. I remembered it as a well written history with lots of details of what it was like to be the average Joe during the Black Death. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Friar Michele speaks of crazed dogs running wild on deserted streets, of nighttime fires winking from crowded fields and vineyards around the city, of dusty, sun-drenched roads filled with sweaty, fearful refugees, of sick stragglers wandering off to nearby woods and huts to die. Review Quotes "A compelling and eminently readable portrait." It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train. The best medical science at the time of the Black Death almost came close to an approximate understanding of how the plague spread. Thus, for example, there is his account, drawn largely from "a Franciscan friar named Michele da Piazza," of the plague's arrival in Sicily, in the city of Messina: "Soon Messina began to empty out. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Agnolo di Turo, Siena, 1348, In just over 1000 days from 1347 to 1351 the 'Black Death' swept across medieval Europe killing 30% of it's population. The reason I wrote this review is for other people like me that may not be able to stick with redundancy and save them $11. 987 likes. There was little that people could do. I can’t imagine the years of investigating and study that went into the lucid writing of this book but I am so grateful to the author. Extremely detailed, but also very readable. The author is very redundant,which in his defense writing of a plagues march across Europe will have a lot of reoccurring events. After the plague, "smaller population meant a larger share of resources for survivors -- and, often as well, a wiser use of resources." The centuries have a neutralizing effect; I imagine they accepted what they called “the great mortality” as a fact of history in the same way I do.) . Usually, most of the chapter would focus on introducing the city or area and less time on the plague itself, which was frustrating. HarperCollins Publishers. My niece and sister and I went to England and France this summer and every night, one of us would read aloud, chapter after chapter. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. For example, the section on anti-semitism was long, with lots of background and only partially focused on the plague, which was interesting but I would become a bit of a slog while waiting for information related directly to the plague. You are listening to a sample of the Audible narration for this Kindle book. 2 likes. It is a drama of bravery, misery, weakness, and sacrifice that illustrates mankind’s worst days which led to the ending of an old world and the formation of a new world. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. John Kelly’s, The Great Mortality, is a well written piece of history about a period we’ve all heard about (the black death), but to which we don’t give much thought. People's physiques were grossly distended, unbearable pain rushed through them, they screamed and wept as they died. Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2020. The Great Mortality is a wonderful book, full of fascinating stories about life in the 14th century Europe that was devestated by the black plague. There we were in Avignon, where the pope in residence stumbled through the plague years, living it up while the streets were piling up with bodies. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2018. The book is an interesting history of Europe in the time of the plague, but offers little information about the epidemic itself. What a wonderful book. For more, see the adjacent Read-alikes column. I really enjoyed reading this and found out a lot of information I didn't know, particularly about the different strains of plague. There is an immense literature about the Black Death, the catastrophic plague that swept through Europe in the middle of the 14th century, but the subject of death on a mass scale has acquired heightened urgency in recent years because of AIDS, genocide and the various threats posed by terrorism. ― John Kelly, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. THE GREAT MORTALITY An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. “diary. If your interest is in the bubonic plague, I would look elsewhere. The Great Mortality is a wonderful book, full of fascinating stories about life in the 14th century Europe that was devestated by the black plague. The Great Mortality An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time This edition was published in February 1, 2005 by HarperCollins. It would then be an excellent starting point for further exploration into more Plague History, the guideposts are all here. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. Something went wrong. In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people—one third of the known population—before it vanished. Well organized, easy read, and context for the Black Death, Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2017. I have never not finished a book but I do not know if I can keep reading the same thing over and over. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. John Kelly, who holds a graduate degree in European history, is the author and coauthor of ten books on science, medicine, and human behavior, including Three on the Edge, which Publishers Weekly called the work of "an expert storyteller." What a wonderful book. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! I am now 27% completed with this book and bored to tears. Even some I had thought of but had dismissed, he briefly discussed - the plagues repercussions being a ( but not the) precursor to the Reformation. The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, The Black Death: A History From Beginning to End (Pandemic History), Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power over Humanity, The Black Death, The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Cultural Editions), Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Viruses to Come, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (The Open Yale Courses Series), The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, “John Kelly gives the reader a ferocious, pictorial account of the horrific ravages of [the] plague…an emotionally accessible narrative, animated by wrenchingly vivid tableaus and alarming first-hand witness accounts. Copyright 2005, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved. Please try again. The deadly Y. Pestis virus entered Europe by Genoese galley at Messina, Sicily in October 1347. Kelly summarizes and interprets previous scholarship in a wholly accessible way, and his research in primary sources gives the book its powerful human element. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. By F. Scott Fitzgerald. $25.95. By the spring of 1348 it was devastating the cities of central Italy, by June 1348 it had swept in to France and Spain, and by August it had reached England. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, resulting in the deaths of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history-a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born. The considerably more mundane truth is that it was spread at first by rats -- in particular one known then as "Pharaoh's rat," now called the tarabagan -- and then by the breath and touch of the humans afflicted. This will educate the heck out of you and it reads like a good novel. . The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, No Import Fees Deposit & $12.28 Shipping to Poland. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Read it before Covid... then needed to give it a re-read, Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. “I couldn’t help but think how ill conditioned Churchill looked and the fact that there was a … Early in the century, "a great many things began to go terribly wrong" on the continent. I would definitely recommend this book if you want a concise history of the Great Plague of 1348. For that reason John Kelly's The Great Mortality is timely and -- though the word may seem odd considering the context -- welcome. Unable to add item to List. Like “King Alfonso of Castile, who was besieging the Muslim stronghold, was urged to flee to safety. And believing it to be the end of the world, no one wept for the dead, for all expected to die." How interestingly the author presented the rundown of those years and how all that (long-ago, thank God) carnage resulted in the flowering of the Renaissance. Medieval medicine "was a mixture of folk wisdom, magic, superstition and craft." It was only in later centuries that the term Black Death would be coined. View Great Mortality 123.docx from HUMA 1301 at Houston Community College. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story: how many people died; how farm output and trade declined. The book is an interesting history of Europe in the time of the plague, but offers little information about the epidemic itself. Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2018. I don’t know if there just is not a lot of research to pull from or if the author was more interested in the science and less in the history. The Great Mortality, Watampone, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Each track explores the sadistic nature of mankind during this time of despair and the violent acts and atrocities they committed to their fellow man. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History (Smallpox in History, With A New Introduction), Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (The Open Yale Courses Series), The Black Death: A History From Beginning to End (Pandemic History), The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People, The Black Death: A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Pandemic in Medieval Europe and Human History (Captivating History), A book chronicling one of the worst human disasters in recorded history really has no business being entertaining. Mortality . The report is right about human resiliency: even in the most extreme and horrific of circumstances, people carry on. While there is much that is not known about the great pestilence which struck Europe most savagely in 1348 to 1350, this much can be said: in all of human history, there has never been a most devastating event. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. His books include The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People; The Most Devastating Plague of all Time; and Three on the Edge. Please try again. It was agreed that "the best defense against plague was to remain healthy, and above all, this meant avoiding infected air," but it was hard to be healthy when food was so limited and nutritionally inadequate and when the air stank with the fumes of filth and human and animal waste. Though the story is set in full historical context and though a full panoply of gruesome statistics is presented, its emphasis is on the ordinary (and some not so ordinary) men, women and children who fell victim to the plague, and those who survived. This will educate the heck out of you and it reads like a good novel. He lives in New York City. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Unable to add item to List. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2018, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2014, this is a really interesting book. He begins by setting the stage for the mortality, which is what the contemporaries called it, by discussing where the plague may have come from, how it moved into Europe, and the various types of rats, and people, that may or may not have moved the infected fleas from place to place. 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