Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen, William Rosen
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe
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William Rosen, William Rosen
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Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe

William Rosen, William Rosen

367 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative mysterious tense slow-paced
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In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. Twenty-five million corpses later, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. Before Yersinia pestis, the ...

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