John Aberth is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and is the author of Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III(1996). He lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
"Aberth has produced a lively, readable cultural history that
contributes to the view that the period 1300-1500 was one of
transition, rather than decline...a detailed chronology with maps,
and a generous selection of well-chosen illustrations make this a
volume of interest both to the general reader and researchers."
-Medievalia et Humanistica
"Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship
lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites
is made remarkably vivid. Not the least virture of his lively hood
is the way it places the characteristic literature and art of the
period, from fourteenth-century mystical writing to
fifteenth-century tombs, into a secure historical context.The
author's own enthusiasm for plague and associate calamities in late
medieval England and France should prove highly contagious."
-Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of
York
"Aberths' informative and orignally shaped volume is well tailored
to bring out the dynamic of man's struggle with his environment in
the last two medieval centuries. In his story, War, Plague, and
Famine play very full parts, and the treatment here of the medieval
attitude to Death, the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse, is
especially well presented."
-Maurice Keen, fellow, Balliol College, Oxford
"Recommended for academic and larger public libraries."
-"Library Journal
"Well written and lively, the book will give general and
undergraduate students of British history plenty to think
about."
-"Choice, October 2001
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