![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving together evolutionary microbiology, economics, military strategy, ecology, and ancient and modern medicine, Rosen offers a sweeping narrative of one of the great hinge moments in history, one that will appeal to readers of John Kelly’s The Great Mortality, John Barry’s The Great Influenza, and Jared Diamond’s Collapse. In Justinian’s Flea, William Rosen tells the story of history’s first pandemic plague seven centuries before the Black Death that killed tens of millions, devastated the empires of Persia and Rome, left a path of victims from Ireland to Iraq, and opened the way for the armies of Islam. ![]() The ensuing outbreak of bubonic plague killed five thousand people a day in Constantinople and nearly killed Justinian himself. Justinians Flea by William Rosen audiobook. Emperor Justinian had reunified Romes fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea. The Emperor Justinian reunified Romes fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated. In his capital at Constantinople he built the world’s most beautiful building, married its most powerful empress, and wrote its most enduring legal code, seemingly restoring Rome’s fortunes for the next five hundred years. From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of natures smallest organisms and historys mightiest empire. The Emperor Justinian reunified Romes fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. ![]()
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