Overview
The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course of three terrible years, more than a third of Europe's population was wiped out.
Cast
- Denis Lawson as Narrator
- Simon Thorp as Gabriele De Mussis
- Vincent Carmichael as Giovanni Boccaccio
- Philip Madoc as Gentile da Foligno
- Jonathan Firth as Louis Heyligen
- Patrick Toomey as Robert of Avesbury
- Nicholas Rowe as Gui de Chauliac
- Timothy Watson as Bailiff of the Court
- Dorian Lough as Nicholas Deneys
- Susan Engel as Lady Rose de Saxham