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Aug 7, 2023 · From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349.
- A Journey to 14Th-Century England
- Everything’s Gone wrong. Badly wrong.
- The Tale Shifts from The 14th Century to The 21st, and Back Again
- An Exciting Tale, Well Told
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Kivrin Engle is a bright and adventurous first-year student in medieval history at Oxford’s Brasenose College. In the mid-21st century, time travel is well established as a method for historians to study conditions over the past four or five hundred years, and Kivrin is eager to explore 14th-century England. Together with the acting head of medieva...
Somehow, Kivrin has fallen violently ill with a flu-like disease. She arrives in the forest near Skendgate delirious with fever. Back in Oxford, a similar disease is spreading fast, filling up first the university infirmary and then all available rooms for the fast-growing number of patients as the epidemic spreads. The National Health Servicequara...
Meanwhile, in 21st-century Oxford, Dunworthy frantically seeks to discover what’s gone awry. But distractions constantly intrude. His secretary repeatedly insists that he make decisions about inconsequential matters. A visiting American archaeologist demands his help in getting access to her dig at the ruins of Skendgate. A troupe of American bell-...
We know, of course, that Kivrin has actually been transported not to 1320 but to 1348, the year the plague came to England. (We know that because this award-winning novel is so widely discussed as a story about the Black Death.) But neither Kivrin nor Dunworthy is aware of that at first. In fact, throughout most of the action, both believe that she...
Connie Willis (1945-) is one of the most honored authors in science fiction. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for individual works—more major SF awards than any other writer.Doomsday Book is one of just twenty-five novels that have won both the Hugo and Nebula since the year the latter was first granted in 1966. Others include...
I’ve also reviewed two comic novels by Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell (An award-winner’s comic alien abduction story) and Crosstalk (When “too much information” gets all too real). For another, much less successful, novel about time travel to the mid-14th century, see Timeline by Michael Crichton (Nonstop action in this time travel thriller). I...
In the years 1346–1353, a terrible disease swept over Western Asia, the Middle East, northern Africa and Europe, causing catastrophic losses of population everywhere, both in the countryside and in towns and cities.
Nov 24, 2020 · The Black Death is the name given to the plague outbreak in Europe between 1347-1352 CE. The term was only coined after 1800 CE in reference to the black buboes (growths) which erupted in the groin...
Nov 24, 2019 · The Black Death raged across Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia in the mid 14th century. Families were thrown into chaos, the Catholic church faced dissension in its ranks, and townships struggled to provide services and control infection.
The Complete History of the Black Death. A truly definitive work, this magisterial study draws on the latest evidence from across Europe to show in exhaustive detail the nature of the...
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Sep 30, 2004 · The Black Death. Joseph P. Byrne. Bloomsbury Academic, Sep 30, 2004 - History - 231 pages. Probably the greatest natural disaster to ever curse humanity, the Black Death's lethality is...
