Eyewitness to History - selections from primary sources

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EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it

Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it

Some of that site's selections:

The Black Death, 1348

The Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio lived through the plague as it ravaged the city of Florence in 1348. The experience inspired him to write The Decameron, a story of seven men and three women who escape the disease by fleeing to a villa outside the city. In his introduction to the fictional portion of his book, Boccaccio gives a graphic description of the effects of the epidemic on his city.

The Flagellants Attempt to Repel the Black Death, 1349 by Sir Robert of Avesbury

They whipped themselves to do penance for their sins.