The black horse of the apocalypse and its pale rider -- Fine buildings and bad smells -- Town and gown -- Impending disaster -- The infected summer -- Falling leaves and sable skies -- A rash of red crosses -- A harvest of death -- The beginning of the end of the pestilence -- The final toll
Summary
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Great Plague that swept through the British Isles in 1665-66, Evelyn Lord focuses not on London but on the city of Cambridge, where every death was a singular blow which affected the entire community
