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The History of the Black Death (en Inglés)
Kiet Huynh (Autor)
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In October 1347, twelve Genoese galleys drifted into Messina's harbor. Most oarsmen were already dead at their benches; the few still breathing burned with fever, dark egg-sized swellings in their armpits and groins. Within four years, whatever they carried killed a larger share of Europe than any war, famine, or disaster in its recorded history.This book traces that disaster from three decades before a single ship reached Sicily - through Central Asia's rodent burrows and the Mongol trade routes that carried it west - to the labor shortage, peasant revolts, and shaken Church authority that followed for a century and a half.Inside, you'll find: A death toll historians still argue about. Traditional estimate: 30 to 50 percent. Ole Benedictow's research (2004, confirmed again in 2021): as much as 60 percent. Both appear here, with the reasoning behind each.A law that failed for forty years. England's Statute of Labourers tried to freeze wages after 1351. Parliament reissued tighter versions of it for four decades - each one an admission the last had failed.A modern gene with a medieval cause. A 2022 study found a gene variant that helped some Londoners survive the plague - the same variant now raises the risk of Crohn's disease in their descendants.The scientist who proved it. Alexandre Yersin isolated the bacterium in 1894, working from a bamboo hut beside a hospital that wouldn't let him inside. Confirming it caused the medieval pandemic took until 2011.No background in medieval history or microbiology is assumed. Contested numbers appear as ranges, named by historian.A third of a continent died without anyone choosing it. What survivors built afterward, no one asked for either.
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