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Black Death - A New History of the Bubonic Plagues of London (Paperback)
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Black Death - A New History of the Bubonic Plagues of London (Paperback)
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Evidence of the foulness and cruelty of the greatest catastrophe
ever to hit London is still being unearthed under the streets of
the capital today. The fresh plague pits containing thousands of
skeletons uncovered during the construction of Crossrail are a
reminder of the painful, drawn-out death suffered by Londoners as
pustules and abscesses broke out all over their bodies. Plague has
been a scourge of mankind since its onset in the sixth century. Its
distinctive and repulsive symptoms, the excruciatingly painful
effects inflicted on its victims, with a very high mortality rate,
evoked a fear and repulsion that was caused by no other disease.
Attempts to control its spread proved futile. The second plague
pandemic in Europe began when the disease reached Sicily in October
1347. From there it spread remorselessly across the entire
continent and erupted in London in the autumn of 1348, killing at
least one-third, and perhaps one-half, of its inhabitants. As the
largest city in England, London suffered a higher death-toll than
any other community during the many subsequent outbreaks. Tudor and
Stuart London was a city afflicted by plague, yet its population
continued to grow inexorably, as it drew people from the rest of
the country to replace the losses. Plague's last visitation came in
1665 and was its most destructive, claiming at least 70,000 victims
in the space of just eight months and becoming known as the Great
Plague. The legacy of plague has been a dread that has scarcely
been overcome even today.
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