5/7/2023 0 Comments Plagues by Falynn Koch![]() In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it travelled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people-one third of the known population-before it vanished. Or to live in a society where the bonds of blood and sentiment and law have lost all meaning, where anyone can murder or rape or plunder anyone else without fear of consequence. Or to have to chose between your own life and your duty to a mortally ill child or spouse. But statistics can’t convey what it was like to sit in Siena or Avignon and hear that a thousand people a day are dying two towns away. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story: how many people died how farm output and trade declined. ![]() The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. ![]()
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