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INTERVIEW: A Conversation with SD Sykes about Plague Land

October 3, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Burial of plague victims - The Black Death

My interview with fiction author, SD Sykes about her fantastic medieval crime novel, Plague Land.

Filed Under: Fiction, Interviews Tagged With: 2014 Books, Black Death, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, Christianity, Crime, Disease, English Peasants Revolt of 1381, Europe, Fiction, Fourteenth Century, Interviews, John Mandeville, Late Middle Ages, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Margery Kempe, Monasticism, Mysticism, Peasants, Piers Plowman, Plague, Plagueland, Religious Life, SD Sykes, Superstition, Violence, William Langland

BOOK REVIEW: Plague Land by SD Sykes

September 4, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Plague Land by SD Sykes

My review of SD Sykes brilliant medieval thriller, Plague Land.

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Books, Features Tagged With: 2014 Books, Black Death, Christianity, Disease, Economics - Rural, England, Famine, Feudalism, Fiction, Fourteenth Century, Italy, Labour, Monasticism, Peasants, Religious Life, Reliquaries, SD Sykes, Superstition, Violence