About the Author
John Aberth received his PhD in medieval history from the University of Cambridge in England and has taught at various universities and colleges throughout Vermont, where he lives with his wife, horses, and cats.
He specializes in the Black Death or plague of the late Middle Ages and is the author of The Black Death: The Great Mortality of1348—1350: A Brief History with Documents, published with Bedford/St. Martin's Press; The First Horseman: Disease in Human History, with Pearson/Prentice Hall; and From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages, with Routledge Press. He is currently working on a new book, Doctoring the Black Death: The Late Medieval Medical Response to Epidemic Disease, also to be published with Rowman & Littlefield.More on the topic About the Author:
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