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Doomsday Book, Fact or Fiction?
In our day and age, movies and novels are passed off by many as history. Movies like Troy, U-571, and Enemy at the Gates (it can't get any worse than that) are historical inaccurate and at times horribly offensive. One must be dubious towards any form of entertainment with historical "facts" put out, be it a book or a movie. On the contrary, Connie Willis does a relatively good job of portraying the past in the Doomsday Book. She writes about traveling in time to the era of the Black Death and how it was experienced by the people who lived during the time. She discusses the plague itself, the religious aspects of it, and the hygiene of the people. For the most part, she depicts the past accurately as it was recorded by people who lived during the time.
The Doomsday Book focuses on the Late Middle Ages, especially the Black Death. Willis describes the path of the plague, the symptoms, the results and such. According to records from the past, she......

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