Author: | John Hatcher | ISBN: | 9780786741311 |
Publisher: | Hachette Books | Publication: | June 9, 2009 |
Imprint: | Da Capo Press | Language: | English |
Author: | John Hatcher |
ISBN: | 9780786741311 |
Publisher: | Hachette Books |
Publication: | June 9, 2009 |
Imprint: | Da Capo Press |
Language: | English |
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 (134550 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 (134550 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.