John Hatcher

The Black Death

The Intimate Story of a Village in Crisis 1345-50

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Produktbeschreibung

How the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group / Phoenix
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780753823071
• ISBN-10: 0753823071
• Artikelnr.: 26126366

Autorenporträt

John Hatcher is Professor of Economic and Social History and Chairman of the History Faculty at Cambridge University. He has taught the subject of the Black Death for twenty years and is the author of eight books on medieval history. He appeared in the Channel 4 series THE SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN and advised on Discovery Channel series BLOODY BRITAIN, as well as a Channel 4 documentary on the Peasants' Revolt with Tony Robinson. He lives in Cambridge.

Rezensionen

a gripping read -- part historical inquiry, part novel INDEPENDENT