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 […]
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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 […]