Full name: The Black Death: A Personal History

Author: John Hatcher Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780306817922 0306815710 0306817926

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. Similar books: Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset The Black Death by Rosemary Horrox The Black Death by Robert S. Gottfried The Great Mortality by John Kelly A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton The Kings and Queens of England by Nicholas Best Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Persian Fire by Tom Holland Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown SPQR by Mary Beard The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly Triangle by David Von Drehle Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen The Course of Human Events by David McCullough Eyewitness to History by John Carey Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz