Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague

by John Aberth

The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe's population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742557235
• ISBN13: 9780742557239
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"