New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: on the one hand a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry and exquisitely illuminated Books of Hours; on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony- a world plunged into chaos. These are the years when the Black Death struck in the great plague of..... More