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The Black Death - A Personal History (2008)
Front Cover Book Details
Genre Fiction
Subject Black Death - Fiction
Publication Date 6/2/2008
Format Hardcover (9.3 x 6.3 mm)
Publisher Da Capo Press
Language English
Extras Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover
Description
In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, world-renowned scholar John Hatcher re-creates 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), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly inside those tumultuous times 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 felt and thought about these momentous events: what they knew and didn’t know about the horrors of the disease, what they believed about death and God’s vengeance, and how they tried to make sense of it all despite frantic rumors, frightening tales, and fearful sermons.
Personal Details
Store History Book Club
Purchase Price $14.24
Acquire Date 9/8/2008
Rating 0
Product Details
LoC Classification PR6108.A87B57 2008
Dewey 823/.92
ISBN 9780306815713
Edition Book Club Edition
Cover Price $27.50
No. of Pages 368
First Edition No
Rare No