{"id":13129,"date":"2022-04-07T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=205852"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:59:08","slug":"the-black-death-living-through-the-plague","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-black-death-living-through-the-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Death: living through the plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 07 April 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>What would it have been like to live through a <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> outbreak? In this episode, Ellie Cawthorne speaks to Professor Samuel Cohn about the experiences of medieval people in communities ravaged by the deadly disease. He reveals what the chroniclers tell us about the range of responses to the crisis in the late 1340s, and the lengths people went to to survive.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-205852-1&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\/04\/HistoryExtra_BlackDeath_E3-ca6f4fb.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/HistoryExtra_BlackDeath_E3-ca6f4fb.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/HistoryExtra_BlackDeath_E3-ca6f4fb.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><section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <p>Want to hear more? Browse the rest of the episodes in our <strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast-series\/black-death-podcast-series\/&quot;\">podcast series on the Black Death<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Thursday, 07 April 2022 at 12:00 am What would it have been like to live through a Black Death outbreak? In this episode, Ellie Cawthorne speaks to Professor Samuel Cohn about the experiences of medieval people in communities ravaged by the deadly disease. 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