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The Black Death of 1348 - 49 killed millions in its march across Europe, but how many is still a subject of intense debate with claims ranging between 25 and 50 per cent. This book examines the impact of that appalling disaster on England's most populous city, London. Using previously untapped documentary sources alongside archaeological evidence, a remarkably detailed picture emerges of the arrival, duration and public response to this epidemic and subsequent fourteenth-century outbreaks. Wills and civic and royal administration documents provide clear evidence of the speed and severity of the plague, of how victims made preparations for their heirs and families, and of the immediate social changes that the aftermath brought. Previous scholarly opinions on the timing and duration of the plague are challenged and the mortality rate is revised up to 50 - 60 per cent in the first outbreak, with a population decline of 40 - 45 per cent across Edward III's reign. Overall, The Black Death in London provides as detailed a story as is possible to tell of the impact of the plague on a major medieval English city.
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BARNEY SLOANE was a field archaeologist for the Museum of London and is now in charge of research grants at English Heritage. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Reading, and a member of the councils of the British Archaeological Association and the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society. He lives in Oxfordshire.
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This is the latest contribution to extensive academic research on the Black Death and is already being cited as valuable evidence by scholars. For the non-academic it's a fascinating and extremely readable insight into the way in which archaeology, public records and careful cross-referencing can be brought together in a coherent narrative. The author makes scholarship accessible without being heavy-handed, showing the way in which even in a crisis civic structures held together, people continued to engage in commercial and legal activities and attended to public health and religion. This is an antedote for those fed up with history re-enacted TV-fashion with close-ups of swelling bodies, swelching streets and the persistent scratch of rats. Researched, rational, reasonably argued - and all the more chilling in consequence.
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