Bawdy Tales Part 1 — Introduction & The Monk’s Story
"A series of naughty stories told by a group of mediaeval traveller’s on their way to London from Yorkshire at the time of the Black Death"
IntroductionIn the late Middle Ages the Black Death, the greatest and most deadly outbreak of infectious disease in history, ravaged Europe, eventually killing between one third and a half of the population.The disease, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia...