The Black Death: A Personal History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306817922)

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.

Author: John Hatcher
ISBN-10: 0306817926
ISBN-13: 9780306817922
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d