Kitchen Shenanigans: Prompt: In the Time of Plague

By Ciel - About Me - E-mail this page - Add to My Favorites - Add to Blog List - See other blogs in Cooking, Food & Wine

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Prompt: In the Time of Plague

In the mid-1300s, over a period of about 5 years, the Great Pestilence, the Black Plague swept across Europe from Asia to Ireland, from the Arctic to North Africa, wiping out two thirds of the population, emptying whole towns and reducing the productive countryside to a world of bleak abandonment. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Previous: reprising some poems - New Entries - Next: prompt: Permanence

Headlines (What is this?)