{"id":12026,"date":"2022-03-24T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=204621"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:55:25","slug":"the-black-death-introduction","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-black-death-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Death: introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 24 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In the late 1340s, people in cities, towns and villages across the medieval world began to fall ill from a mysterious pestilence. This six part series looks at the how the <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/medieval\/black-death-plague-epidemic-facts-what-caused-rats-fleas-how-many-died\/&quot;\">Black Death<\/a> shook the Middle Ages, killing millions and transforming societies. Speaking to expert historians, we\u2019ll track the spread of this devastating disease, reveal what it was like to live through the pandemic and consider its dramatic, long-lasting impact.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-204621-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/BlackDeath_E1v2-f47aba5.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/BlackDeath_E1v2-f47aba5.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/BlackDeath_E1v2-f47aba5.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Note: The primary sources quoted in this series are taken from:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><em>The Black Death<\/em>, translated and edited by Rosemary Horrox (1994)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Black Death, The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents<\/em>, John Arberth (2005)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Thursday, 24 March 2022 at 12:00 am In the late 1340s, people in cities, towns and villages across the medieval world began to fall ill from a mysterious pestilence. This six part series looks at the how the Black Death shook the Middle Ages, killing millions and transforming societies. 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