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The Black Death: A Personal History
John Hatcher
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Description for The Black Death: A Personal History
Paperback.
In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived,and died,during the Black Death (1345-50 AD), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly into those tumultuous years and describes in fascinating detail the day-to-day existence of people struggling with the tragic effects of the plague. Dramatic scenes portray how contemporaries must have experienced and thought about the momentous events,and how they tried to make sense of it all.
In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived,and died,during the Black Death (1345-50 AD), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly into those tumultuous years and describes in fascinating detail the day-to-day existence of people struggling with the tragic effects of the plague. Dramatic scenes portray how contemporaries must have experienced and thought about the momentous events,and how they tried to make sense of it all.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306817922
SKU
V9780306817922
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99-15
About John Hatcher
John Hatcher, a leading expert in medieval and early modern social and economic history, is Professor of Economic and Social History and Chairman of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge.
Reviews for The Black Death: A Personal History
Bookviews.com, July 2009 "This book uses a bit of fiction, mixing it with [Hatcher's] vast knowledge to illuminate that catastrophe." Curled Up with a Good Book "This book screams 'docudrama.' One wonders if it will be made into a TV mini-series, so vivid is its novelistic story line yet accurate its information...What Hatcher has done, and done well, is to tell the tale of the Black Plague that swept through Europe in the 14th century from the viewpoint of a single English village." Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/7/09 "The core of the story
the plague's effect on the lives of everyday people
is as true as can be surmised, nearly 700 years later."
the plague's effect on the lives of everyday people
is as true as can be surmised, nearly 700 years later."