The Black Death

by Hatcher, John

• ISBN13: 9780306815713
• ISBN10: 0306815710
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-02
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

John did not Regain his Senses, and soon after sunrise he stopped breathing. Agnes arose and looked vainly around the bare room, and peered out of the window and door.... She lit the candle the priest had sold her and recited the Placebo as best she could. But the words of the prayer, which she had known well since she was twelve, kept slipping from her mind. As she washed John's body, she was shocked to see that much of his skin was now blotched and blackened, and that there were a number of swellings as well as the carbuncle in his groin. She folded him into a clean sheet, just as she had her former husband after his death. Then she fetched some sticks of wood that she washed and dried, and placed them at the edge of the embers in the hearth and waited till the ends blackened and burned to ash. Taking them up, she allowed them to cool, and then carefully traced a cross on the shroud, and smoothed and shaped it with her fingers. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John Hatcher, a leading expert in medieval and early modern social and economic history, is Professor of Economic and Social History and chairman of the history faculty at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Nature of This Book	p. ix
Introduction: Walsham in the Middle Ages	p. 1
Master John	p. 13
Late Summer, 1345	p. 21
Autumn 1345 to Winter 1347	p. 35
Christmas and New Year, 1347-1348	p. 53
Spring and Early Summer, 1348	p. 63
Midsummer and Autumn, 1348	p. 81
Autumn and Winter, 1348	p. 101
New Year, 1349	p. 119
Lent and Easter, 1349	p. 135
Mid-April to Early May, 1349	p. 149
Mid-May, 1349	p. 163
Late May to Early June, 1349	p. 179
June 10-20, 1349	p. 201
Summer, 1349	p. 217
Summer and Autumn, 1349	p. 233
September to December, 1349	p. 249
1350	p. 263
Epilogue	p. 285
Illustration Credits	p. 289
Notes	p. 291
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