John Hatcher

The Black Death: A Personal History

July 16, 2009

About the Video

John Hatcher, Cambridge University history professor and 2008-09 Stanford Humanities Center Fellow, shares the challenges of writing and researching his book The Black Death: A Personal History. He talks about the way in which he combines history and non-ficitional writing to describe a single location during the Black Death.

About the Series

The Human Experience outreach initiative has the objective of raising awareness of humanities research at Stanford University.

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