Contemporary artists and performers, alongside historians and curators,examine the creative renewal in literature, music and art in the aftermath of the Black Death, with survivors finding their voice, questioning authority and challenging status and class. Above all, writing in English was revived by works including Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, William Langland's satire The Vision of Piers Plowman and breakthrough works by women like the spirited pilgrim Margery Kempe