The Black DeathRosemary Horrox A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century (1348-1350). It traces through contemporary writings of the impact of the Black Death in Europe with particular emphasis on its spread across England. |
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... mortality among both sexes . I have hunted out the most reliable account and the most accurate information I could find concerning the mortality , and here record it in writing so that future generations may have knowledge of it . I ...
... mortality among both sexes . I have hunted out the most reliable account and the most accurate information I could find concerning the mortality , and here record it in writing so that future generations may have knowledge of it . I ...
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... mortality was so appalling in Tournai , who could conceive what was happening in all the other kingdoms and countries ? For the rumour was that the mortality had begun in the East and had spread throughout the whole world . And future ...
... mortality was so appalling in Tournai , who could conceive what was happening in all the other kingdoms and countries ? For the rumour was that the mortality had begun in the East and had spread throughout the whole world . And future ...
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... mortality levels may have been . In recent years English assessments of the mortality in 1348-49 have also been rising steadily back towards a death rate of almost one in two , providing a context in which any contemporary exaggeration ...
... mortality levels may have been . In recent years English assessments of the mortality in 1348-49 have also been rising steadily back towards a death rate of almost one in two , providing a context in which any contemporary exaggeration ...
Contents
The fourth pestilence 137479 88 | 11 |
NARRATIVE ACCOUNTS 1 | 14 |
The plague in Florence | 26 |
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