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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.
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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
A wonderfully written book with numerous black and white images. -- Biblical Worldview, August 2001
Thorough, balanced, and courteous in tone, this survey of the social, political, and moral landscape of the late Middle Ages inspires confidence even when it invites disagreement. Aberth is especially good on the literature of the period. His wide-ranging and well-illustrated chapter on death in particular is offers a splendidly comprehensive overview of a subject which has lately attracted a great deal of first-rate research and writing. -- The New York Review of Books, May 2002
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
A wonderfully written book with numerous black and white images. -- Biblical Worldview, August 2001
Thorough, balanced, and courteous in tone, this survey of the social, political, and moral landscape of the late Middle Ages inspires confidence even when it invites disagreement. Aberth is especially good on the literature of the period. His wide-ranging and well-illustrated chapter on death in particular is offers a splendidly comprehensive overview of a subject which has lately attracted a great deal of first-rate research and writing. -- The New York Review of Books, May 2002
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