The Great Plague

A People's History

Evelyn Lord (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2014
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-17381-9 (ISBN)

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During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world's population. Four centuries later, in 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. In this title, the author focuses on Cambridge, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community.

In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord’s fascinating reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range of individuals, from historical notables Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton to common folk who tilled the land and ran the shops. She brings this dark era to vivid life through stories of loss and survival from those who grieved, those who fled, and those who hid to await their fate.

Evelyn Lord is a local historian and emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. She is the author of The Hell-Fire Clubs, The Stuart Secret Army, and The Knights Templar in Britain.

Zusatzinfo	16 pp b-w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10	0-300-17381-4 / 0300173814
ISBN-13	978-0-300-17381-9 / 9780300173819
Zustand	Neuware