Black Death: A New History of the Bubonic Plagues
- ISBN-10
- 1445656868
- ISBN-13
- 9781445656861
- Series
- Black Death
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 496
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09-15
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing Limited
- Author
- Stephen Porter
Description
The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the medieval Black Death of the 1340s to the Great Plagues of the seventeenth century.
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