Summary of Amy Licence's Red Roses

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On the last day of December 1347, a ship with survivors from the siege at Caffa, far away on the Baltic Sea, limped into Genoa in northern Italy. The disease had spread quickly to Venice and Marseilles, and then north. #2 The first cases of the Black Death were reported in Avignon in 1347, and then quickly spread to France and Italy. It reached the English Channel and the kingdom of Edward III by the summer of 1348. #3 In 1348, the first cases of the Black Death were recorded in Avignon in southern France, and then quickly spread to Italy and England. It reached the English Channel and the kingdom of Edward III by the summer of 1348. #4 The Black Death ravaged Europe in the 1330s and 1340s. It reached England in 1348, and the first cases were recorded in Avignon in southern France that summer. The disease killed nearly all of the Lincolnshire clergy by the summer of 1349.