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Front the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages. By John Aberth. New York: Routledge, 2001. xvi + 304 pp. $26.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.
The author aims to illuminate the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries through the literary device of the "Four Horsemen" of the Apocalypse. Rather than study late medieval apocalyptic understanding of Famine, War, Plague, and Death, Aberth focuses...