About this Event
Join us for an evening of conversation with historian Thomas Asbridge to celebrate the release of his new history of the bubonic plague, The Black Death.
From Europe to the Middle East and Asia, The Black Death places the destruction caused by bubonic plague into its true global context, exploring the disease's catastrophic effects on diverse aspects of medieval life.
An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at the same time a page turner: intimate stories of suffering, death and resilience are situated in large scale social, cultural and economic histories of the ravages of the Black Death as it spread across the globe. Asbridge's definitive biography of Yersina pestis, the germ that caused the world’s deadliest disease, is a masterpiece - Thomas W. Laqueur
Compelling, horrifying, humane. This is the history we need now of this cataclysmic pandemic: wide-ranging, personal and hugely accessible. From Kilkenny to Cairo, Moscow to Mecca, Asbridge allows us to see the Black Death through the eyes and in the words of the people all around the world who experienced its terrors, sought to make sense of it, and lived with all its seismic and durable consequences . . . A must-read for anyone who wants to get under the skin and into the mindset of the Middle Ages, or who needs to know how humans react when faced with apocalypse - Seb Falk
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 150-152 King's Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00 to GBP 40.00
