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Justinian's flea : the first great plague, and the end of the Roman Empire
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- ISBN: 014311381X (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780143113812 (pbk.) :
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Physical Description:
367 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
print - Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2008, c2007.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-349) and index. |
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| Subject: | Byzantine Empire History Justinian I, 527-565 Byzantine Empire History To 527 Plague Byzantine Empire Epidemiology Epidemics Byzantine Empire History Plague History To 1500 |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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- 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | 949.501 R813j 2007 (Text) | 33126018547202 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Traces the summer 542 bubonic plague pandemic that daily killed five thousand people in Constantinople and nearly ended the life of the emperor Justinian, in an account that reveals how the outbreak had a significant impact on period military strategy, economics, and medicine. Reprint. - Baker & Taylor
Examines the bubonic plague pandemic that killed 5,000 people a day in Constantinople and nearly ended the life of the emperor Justinian, tracing the outbreak's significant impact on military strategy, economics, and medicine. - Penguin Putnam
From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire
During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born.
At its height, five thousand people died every day in Constantinople. Cities were completely depopulated. It was the first pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indelible mark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian's Flea is a unique and sweeping account of the little known event that changed the course of a continent.