Justinian's Flea

Bill Rosen

RRP: £20.00

Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE

Publication Date : 03/05/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Subtitled, "Plague, Empire & The Birth Of Europe". An epic story in which the newly united Roman Empire under Justinian is decimated by bubonic plague.

Publisher's description:

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. This book tells the story of that collision.

ISBN: 9780224073691