From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages

This lively work describes how the lives of ordinary people in the Middle Ages were transformed by a series of crises, whilst also showing how cultural assumptions, including a belief in the apocalypse, gave people an ability to face up positively to these problems. This second edition is brought fully up to date with recent scholarship, drawing some bold new conclusions and raising important questions.

Author: John Aberth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/09/2009
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780415777971

About the Author

John Aberth lives and teaches in Vermont. He is the author of five books, including The First Horseman: Disease in Human History (2007), The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350 (2005), and A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film (2003).