Famine, our first apocalyptic horseman, connives to wreak its misery repeatedly upon mankind while its victims stand by, seemingly powerless to act.
An edition of From the brink of the apocalypse: confronting famine, war, plague and death in the later Middle Ages
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From the brink of the apocalypse
confronting famine, war, plague, and death in the later middle ages
by John Aberth
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"Relying on rich literary and historical sources John Aberth brings this period to life. Taking his themes from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he describes how the Great Famine and Black Death swept away nearly half of Europe's population, while the royal houses of England and France were engaged in a Hundred Years War that meant perpetual political strife. Above all loomed the specter of Death, ever present and constantly feared.".
"Throughout the later Middle Ages, ordinary people were transformed by these daunting and fearful series of crises, yet in their prayers, chronicles, poetry, and especially their commemorative art are foreshadowings of the age to come. As John Aberth reveals in this informative and sympathetic work, in their struggles we glimpse the birth of the modern."--BOOK JACKET.
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Hundred Years War, 1339-1453, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, History and criticism, Black Death, Civilization, Famines, Disasters, Apocalyptic literature, History, Warfare, Apokalyptik, Pest, Katastrophe, Hungersnot, England, Epidemie, Hundertjahriger Krieg, Plague, Hundred Years' War (1339-1453) fast (OCoLC)fst00963888, Todesvorstellung, Great britain, civilization, Great britain, history, to 1485, Medieval Medicine, Medieval History, Starvation, Histoire, Littérature apocalyptique, Histoire et critique, Civilisation, Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453, Peste noire, Médecine médiévale, Katastrophē, Hundertjähriger Krieg, Det apokalyptiska i litteraturen, Det apokalyptiska i konsten, Hungersnöd, Historia, Hundraårskriget, 1337-1453, Digerdöden, WarPlaces
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