Isbn: 9780306815713 - the Black Death: a Personal History (17 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches) Includes photo plates, maps, and notes. 368 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A unique and absorbing history of the Black Death's devastating effect on the villagers of one small English parish. With alarming speed, the horrific plague that swept across the known world in the mid-fourteenth century (from 1345 to 1350) took the lives of an estimated 40 percent of the population. The Black Death was one of Europe's greatest natural disasters, a watershed event that changed forever the social and economic history of Western civilizations. Yet sources tell us very little about the ordinary person's experience of the plague. until now. In this fresh historical approach to the study of the Black Death, author and scholar John Hatcher re-creates everyday life in the rural English parish of Walsham. Through a series of vivid, meticulously researched scenes, he shows how the terrible events of the times affected the villagers, how fear and hysteria spread as the epidemic drew near, and how quickly death ran its course as nearly fifty townspeople a day perished. Hatcher also portrays the clergy's desperate struggle to minister to the dying and to offer spiritual comfort to the living in a time fraught with apocalyptic overtones, and he examines how dramatically life was about to change for those who survived. Hatcher explores this extraordinary event in intimate detail, giving it a more thorough, immediate treatment than historians have given it in the past. He reveals, for the first time, a very personal history of the Black Death.…

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