The Black Death in England: Journal of the Plague Years in the Fourteenth Century

A collection of the individual stories of victims and survivors of the 14th-century plague, restoring humanity to staggering statistics.

We have all heard of the Black Death and how it scythed its way through England and the rest of Europe in the late 1340s, and we hear that a third or perhaps even half of the entire English population died in this terrible pandemic. However the numbers are so vast that the victims become little more than statistics. They blur into a kind of unreality, a mut...