Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 254
... black buboes in the arm - pits and groin which were almost always the heralds of death . Few who caught the disease in its first on- slaught outlived the third day . By the end of January 1348 the plague was raging in all the great ...
... black buboes in the arm - pits and groin which were almost always the heralds of death . Few who caught the disease in its first on- slaught outlived the third day . By the end of January 1348 the plague was raging in all the great ...
Page 296
... Black Death had been a general shortage of labour caused by the death in its first three outbreaks of half the country's population . One result had been a spectacular rise in wages , which the Council and suc- cessive Parliaments of ...
... Black Death had been a general shortage of labour caused by the death in its first three outbreaks of half the country's population . One result had been a spectacular rise in wages , which the Council and suc- cessive Parliaments of ...
Page 436
... Black Death . The medieval Church , like the medieval agrarian system , never wholly recovered from it . For too often it was those who remained at their posts who died , and those who fled and betrayed their faith who lived . That a ...
... Black Death . The medieval Church , like the medieval agrarian system , never wholly recovered from it . For too often it was those who remained at their posts who died , and those who fled and betrayed their faith who lived . That a ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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