The Chronicle of All Things

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2026-05-24 12:01:45 -

The plague came to York shire in the autumn of 1348, carried on the backs of fleas that rode rats that rode merchant ships that rode the river Ouse from Hull. Brother Anselm first noticed it in the sparrows—hundreds of them, lying dead in the abbey yard, their little bodies stiff and black in the November frost. He was thirty years old, a copyist and scholar at St. Mary's Abbey, one of the...

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