The Scourging Angel

This remarkable, ambitious book by a new, young historian is positive about the new society that survived disaster * The Times *Benedict Gummer’s highly impressive book charts the subsequent spread of the disease in meticulous and terrible detail * Sunday Telegraph *A rich, thoughtful and utterly riveting historical narrative… A treasure chest of detail * Daily Telegraph *A fearsomely ambitious book from an exciting new writer… A compelling and sobering picture of a world - peopled with kings, soldiers, bishops, peasants - that is both remote and familiar – Simon Russel BealeThe enormous value of Gummer’s book, for all its apparent narrowness of focus, is that it concentrates attention on the plague as an episode in the Hundred Years War and the new mercantilism that was opening up northern seas and nations to world trade - (a) fine book * Herald *Benedict Gummer’s study…establishes the facts more thoroughly than any of his predecessors, and uses a wider range of sources than most of them…Benedict Gummer is a Parliamentary candidate for Ipswich. Some reviewers have suggested that it would be a loss to literature if he were to be elected. But I should prefer to say that it would be a gain to the House of Commons * Times Literary Supplement *There is a wealth of detail, which is impeccably researched – Doug Kemp * Historical Novels Review *Gripping and illuminating – Noel Malcolm * Sunday Telegraph *There are constant delights in this truly impressive work of narrative and interpretive history…the author ventures intelligently and convincingly. The Scourging Angel is full of hope, as well as of superior scholarship * Country Life *

Born in 1978, Benedict Gummer took a Starred Double First in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner and scholar. He lives and works in Ipswich and London, where he runs a corporate responsibility consultancy.

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