A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of Death and destruction in European history.
Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler offers a critically acclaimed overview of this cruc.
The epidemic killed one-third of Europe\'s people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history.
A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of Death and destruction in European history