The Black Death

A Personal History

By: John Hatcher

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Paperback | 9 June 2009 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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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."

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Preface The Nature of This Book	p. ix
Introduction Walsham in the Middle Ages	p. 1
Master John	p. 13
Late Summer, 1345	p. 21
Autumn 1345 to Winter 1347	p. 35
Christmas and New Year, 1347-1348	p. 53
Spring and Early Summer, 1348	p. 63
Midsummer and Autumn, 1348	p. 81
Autumn and Winter, 1348	p. 101
New Year, 1349	p. 119
Lent and Easter, 1349	p. 135
Mid-April to Early May, 1349	p. 149
Mid-May, 1349	p. 163
Late May to Early June, 1349	p. 179
June 10-20, 1349	p. 201
Summer, 1349	p. 217
Summer and Autumn, 1349	p. 233
September to December, 1349	p. 249
1350	p. 263
Epilogue	p. 285
Illustration Credits	p. 289
Notes	p. 291
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