Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England

by David K Coley and David K. Coley

Book Overview

The plague first arrived in the English port of Weymouth in the summer of 1348. Two years later, half of Britain was dead, but the Black Death was just beginning. In the decades to come, England would suffer recurring outbreaks, social and cultural upheaval, and violent demographic shifts. The pandemic was, by any measure, a massive cultural trauma; however, within the vernacular English literature of the fourteenth century, the response to the disease...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814255221
• ISBN13: 9780814255223
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"