Ring Around the Rosy. A Pocket Full of Posies. Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down. Today when children sing this well-known rhyme it doesn’t stir up the fear that it once did. The seemingly innocent song refers to the bubonic plague, known as the Black Death that swept through Europe, Asia, and Africa in the […]
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Throughout history, there have been many cases of witchcraft. Many of these spawn from personal fears and lack of knowledge, while others hold merit and substantial evidence of the supernatural. The cases to be looked at will be Madumo: A Man Bewitched, as well as the witch-hunt in Germany, 1628. Although the contrast is great, […]
The epidemics were not unknown in the Middle Age. However, the Black Death that attacked Europe from 1348 to 1350 was a pandemic destruction of the European population. One third of the residents of Europe died from the spread of the plague. Mice and fleas were accountable for the transmission of the disease that travelled […]
In the late Middle Age era, Europe, including England, suffered from a severe plague epidemic known as the “Black Death”. The Black Death curbed population increases initially, but as the British people gradually began to build-up immunity to the disease, the island’s population immediately soared upward. Though there were numerous reasons as to why the […]
Between the years 1347 and 1351, it is estimated that one third of the entire European population succumbed to the Black Death, while similar death tolls occurred in both Asia and the Middle East. Although the plague is considered to be the single worst pandemic in world history, one could argue that it yielded several […]
Opinion and Editorial
The Devastating Impact of the Black Death on Marriage and Family in Medieval England
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The bubonic plague, later called the Black Death raged from 1331 to 1353. In Switzerland, the Jews were accused of poisoning the water supplies, thus causing the plague. In the centuries following the Black Death, bubonic plague continued to break out as it did in London in 1664. The only action that proved effective against […]
The Black Death is not only ugly, sad, cruel, ugly, it is also completely dishonorable. In the fourteenth century, as the bubonic plague flourished in Europe, a solitary English village managed to keep the plague at bay, first by renouncing God, and secondly by torturing and killing Christians who killed in the name of God. […]