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==History==
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{{newreview
|author=Benedict Gummer
|title=The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=The mid-fourteenth century was an unsettled time for England. It was an age which saw the first phases of the protracted Hundred Years’ War with France, and the Scottish war of independence, which came to an end with the capture of King David II. As if these events were not enough, in 1346 there was the first case of a man in Europe contracting an unknown disease that rapidly swept across the continent, claiming the lives of millions, and one medieval chronicler noted that 'the bodies looked like a macabre lasagne: corpses piled row upon row separated only by layers of dirt'.
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{{newreview
|author=Mary Beard