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For those who lived through it, the Black Death left a legacy of fear, loss and uncertainty. But how did people cope with such overwhelming catastrophe? And what do contemporary records reveal about the disease’s emotional impact? In this second episode of our three-part Sunday Series on the devastating disease, Emily Briffett and historian Thomas Asbridge – author of new book The Black Death: A Global History, published by Allen Lane – step into the medie…
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She leaves nothing to her husband, who's clearly still alive, and nothing to her father, who's also still living. She does leave something to her mother, who stayed by her side, but was the only person to do so.
“Often they will build special buildings, special structures that hundreds of people will be herded into, and then that group of Jewish people will be burned alive in those buildings. That's important because it shows this is not mob violence carried out in a feral outpouring of anger. This is much more calculated. It takes time. They're building structures. There's a fabric to it. There's an organization to it.”
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