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I have a medieval murder series by Susanna Gregory. It's set in Cambridge and centres around Matthew Bartholomew, a young physician (who also teaches at the fledgling Cambridge University) who has some unorthodox ideas (like: the correlation between dirt and disease, learned from his time in Paris when he was taught by an Arab physician); and Brother Michael, a Benedictine monk whose main hobbies are eating. And eating. And food. Yes, Matthew has warned Michael about his overeating, and yes, it's going in one ear and out the other .... Michael is seen very often in the book, but Matthew is definitely the main character.
And the book I just finished re-reading is called A Plague on Both Your Houses, and it is set in 1348, as the Black Death sweeps into Cambridge, and then devastates the population.
I had it at work a couple of times but I don't think anybody was paying much attention. Either that, or they just didn't want to know.
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