Red Eve: Crécy and the Black Death
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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England and France, 1346: a knight, the girl he cannot marry, a murder to avenge, Crécy — and then the plague comes up the roads out of the east and settles the argument for everyone. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen and helped raise the Union Jack over the Transvaal; here he did the fourteenth century, and the Black Death chapters are the least consoling thing in his work. Fifty-three plates, from Vernet's Mediterranean shores to Munch's, keep the sea and its weather in view while the plague roads fill.
England and France, 1346: a knight, the girl he cannot marry, a murder to avenge, Crécy — and then the plague comes up the roads out of the east and settles the argument for everyone. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen and helped raise the Union Jack over the Transvaal; here he did the four...
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
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