The Black Death | 3. living through the plague
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The Black Death - Episode 3
For most people, the terror didn't begin when the first person in town died. In fact, rumors of a terrible pestilence on its way, were often circulating long before it arrived. i spoke to samuel cone, professor of mediaeval history at the university of glasgow who is also the author of several books on the black death. Of the chronicle from leicestern, an nighten, even for him, the distant worldi is closer to hand, it's even naples. But he's heard these rumours of these horrible things, like worms with eight legs that drop from heaven and killed by their stench,. And e black snows that melt mountains and
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