EVERYMAN'S HISTORY BOOK GROUP discusses "Justinian's Flea" by William Rosen

Start: Mon, 02/08/2010 - 7:00pm

Justinian's Flea by William Rosen*
In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born. At its height, five thousand people died every day in Constantinople. Cities were completely depopulated. It was the first pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indelible mark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian's Flea is a unique and sweeping account of the little known event that changed the course of a continent.

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*Author WILL NOT be present.

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