Black Death - A Personal History

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext From a leading expert comes an original and compelling account of the Black Death's devastation on a small English village during the 14th century. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary people! Hatcher vividly places the reader directly inside those tumultuous times. Zusammenfassung 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

• Authors: John Hatcher, Hatcher John
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2009
• EAN: 9780306817922
• ISBN: 978-0-306-81792-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, FICTION / Historical / Medieval, CE period up to c 1500, Social and cultural history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval