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    <body><![CDATA[It’s a common misconception that the hardest part of writing is figuring out what to write.  Instead the most difficult part is deciding what to leave out.  This, in total, sums up the failure of William Rosen’s ‘Justinian’s Flea.’  It is disjointed, erratic, and all together non-cohesive....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39534869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This intriguing history builds the story of Justinian and his Byzantine empire, then details its decline--due to plague, spread by the infamous flea.  Justinian is a fascinating figure, anyway, along with his beloved empress, Theodora, a courtesan with formidable intelligence and drive.  The story r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73529619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an absorbing and multifaceted history of the age of Emperor Justinian which focuses attention on an epic event I didn't really even know about til I read this book : the Plague of Justinian -- the first outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe in 542 BC -- which killed 25 million people before r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47912896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good history, some fascinating material on the world of late antiquity, including the construction of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (Istanbul). But I'm not sure I'm convinced of the author's arguments about the plague influencing the multi-state nature of Europe. I'm more persuaded by Jed Diamo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65876073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The subject of this book: the effect of plague on the history of late antiquity, is interesting, and the author has obviously done quite a bit of research into it, in the end it is an unsatisfying whole.  I found myself really wanting a timeline to help me follow all of the details, as he goes back ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14579505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book wasn't nearly enough about what the title implies.  It's an OK overall history of Byzantium during this period, but it doesn't really stay honest to what it implies.  It takes until about page 170 for the author to seriously begin to analyze the effects of the plague on Byzantium.  Regardl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77351299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can see why people may not like this book. It does go off in tangents. I happen to enjoy that, and they seem to chase something that I want to know more about, so it works for me.<br/><br/>I haven't finished, so I'll update this later, but if the contention of the book is that the plague in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57888597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting history of the end of the Roman Empire and the role the Bubonic Plague played in ending it. Sort of. The author digresses constantly, describing all sorts of things like the chemistry of the plague. Still, I liked it and found it informative.]]></body>
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