{"product_id":"the-black-death-by-thomas-asbridge-9780241399408","title":"The Black Death","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Asbridge's remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity's greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-fourteenth century, a lethal plague struck the medieval world, causing unimaginable suffering and destruction. This terrifying pandemic - the Black Death - was unquestionably one of history's defining episodes, yet a critical feature of its progress has often been ignored: the disease was not confined to Europe, but rather affected almost all of the known world, including the Near and Middle East, Byzantium, north Africa and Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracing the pandemic's course across the medieval globe, \u003cem\u003eThe Black Death\u003c\/em\u003e contrasts the experiences of different peoples, including Christians, Muslims and Jews, charting this catastrophe's transformative effects on diverse aspects of medieval life. Crucially, Asbridge demonstrates that the plague was often at its most destructive in the Islamic world, where it ultimately played a role in the collapse of the mighty Mamluk Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Death\u003c\/em\u003e also brings the human drama of this calamitous era to life, evoking the terror and the turmoil that beset cities such as London, Cairo and Florence. Asbridge reconstructs the lives of the men, women and children who faced the Black Death—from ruling monarchs to peasant farmers—laying bare both the abject horror they endured and the courageous resolve they often demonstrated while striving to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUncovering a story that speaks to our own age, \u003cem\u003eThe Black Death\u003c\/em\u003e highlights humankind's capacity for compassion and resilience amidst a global crisis to explain how the medieval world confronted, and ultimately overcame, this shattering pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648335134956,"sku":"9780241399408","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241399408-the-black-death.jpg?v=1779257114","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-black-death-by-thomas-asbridge-9780241399408","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}