Professor Marion Turner

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759 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 29 May

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And of course, you know, some people were.

But life in London was really international.

He was rubbing shoulders with people who spoke lots of different languages, were bringing in lots of luxury products.

France.

Yeah, they've always been good at wine.

Yeah.

Yeah, and to everyone.

So the Black Death came to England about 1348 and it completely dwarfs the pandemic that we've been through.

If you imagine a pandemic...

that wiped out maybe a third, maybe a half of the population really quickly.

And the Near East.

It's hugely dramatic.

And it also affected young people as much as the old.

It wasn't only hitting the more vulnerable population.

all sectors of society are hit.

So extraordinary trauma, you know, quite hard for us to imagine.

And yes, Chaucer lost several relatives, but not his parents, not his immediate family.

And what then happened to Chaucer's family is typical of what happened to the country as a whole.

Because if you survived, although probably psychologically, you might have been in a bad way, but materially, things were quite good for you.

It was quite good to be a plague survivor.

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