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The Black Death of 1347-53 was the single most devastating natural disaster in the known history of humanity. The disease spread with fearsome rapidity, coursing along trade and travel routes, claiming the lives of millions. Asbridge uses every kind of record to give the reader a powerful sense of how these large, sophisticated and globalized societies were brought to their knees by this terrible scourge.

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal—providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge - a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker) - covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, listenable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history.