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Philip Ziegler.
The Black Death.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970 (previously issued in hardback, 1969).
Series: Pelican Books
ISBN 0140211896.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the Uk by C. Nicholls & Co.
Size: 110×180×18mm.
Page count: 331pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some general wear on its covers, and some grubby marks on the back; spine curved with some mild creasing, and with a mild bump at its base; pages yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Sutton edition in print at £14.99]
Weight without packaging: 238g.

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Contents: Origins & nature; The state of Europe; Italy; France — state of medical knowledge; Germany — flagellants & persecution of the Jews; The rest of continental Europe; Arrival in England — the west country; Progress across the south; London — hygiene & the medieval city; Sussex, Kent & East Anglia; Midlands & the north of England; Welsh borders, Wales, Ireland & Scotland; Plague in a medieval village; The toll in lives; Social & economic consequences; Education, agriculture & architecture; Effects on the Church & man’s mind.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

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