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Jun 3, 2008 · 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.
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Of course Master John is also subject to horror and death, so as he attempts to navigate the fictional aspects of this story, John Hatcher's own authorial voice can be seen in the background, using this fascinating thought experiment for philosophical considerations of human suffering.
In the historical docudrama “ The Black Death: A Personal History ”, the author John Hatcher paints a story about a priest living in an English village during the most lethal and mortal plague in medieval Europe. Master John is a Parish priest and it is through his eyes the story unfolds.
Master John. The central character of the book is the parish priest of Walsham, Master John. As the author explains in the preface, this position would have obviously been of supreme significance, but there was just one problem in telling his story: nothing of substance could be found during the author’s research.
Aug 1, 2009 · John Hatcher, perhaps the most prominent economic historian of the middle ages now teaching in Great Britain, has produced a new book on the social and personal drama of the Black Death. It centres on the parish of Walsham-le-Willows in north-western Suffolk and its exceptionally rich manorial rolls in the 1340s and 1350s.
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Aug 17, 2008 · Hatcher’s protagonist is the fictitious Master John, a devoted cleric and parish priest of Walsham, created to stand in for a religious figure lost to history. John is a paragon of virtue,...
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In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English...
