Kilkenny, The Black Death and Friar John Clyn
"So that notable deeds should not perish with time, and be lost from the memory of future generations, I, seeing these many ills, waiting among the dead fo...
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The Black Death that decimated Kilkenny City
"So that notable deeds should not perish with time, and be lost from the memory of future generations, I, seeing these many ills, waiting among the dead fo...
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Books Pharmacy: The Decameron
James Martin finds solace, ease and comfort in the equally pandemic-concerned fourteenth-century work, Bocaccio's 'Decameron'.
Source: palatinate.org.uk
In Search of Precedent in Unprecedented Times - The Cambridge Student
In Search of Precedent in Unprecedented Times Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons The first essay I wrote in Cambridge was on the Black Death. As I trawled through the fourteenth-century chroniclers, suffering from a dreadful bout of Freshers’ Flu, I couldn’t help but find descriptions of my symptoms wherever I looked. ‘For several days they spend most of each day asleep, weighed down by drowsiness’, wrote the anonymous author of a German treatise on the plague. That certainly rang true....
Source: cam.ac.uk