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The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3]
The Black Death (1346–1353) had great effects on the art and literature of medieval societies that experienced it. Although contemporary chronicles are often regarded by historians as the most realistic portrayals of the Black Death , the effects of such a large-scale shared experience on the population of Europe influenced poetry, prose ...
The Black Death ravaged Europe for three years before it continued on into Russia, where the disease hit somewhere once every five or six years from 1350 to 1490. [39] Plague epidemics ravaged London in 1563, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1636, and 1665, [40] reducing its population by 10 to 30% during those years. [41]
Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.
The Black Death in Europe and the Kamakura Takeover in Japan As Causes of Religious Reform (2011) Meiss, Millard. Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: the arts, religion, and society in the Mid-fourteenth century (Princeton University Press, 1978) Platt, Colin. King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late Medieval ...
Survivors were aware that the Black Death of 1347–51 was not a unique event and that life was now "far more frightening and precarious than before". [31] The Italian peninsula was struck with an outbreak of plague in 68% of the years between 1348 and 1600. [31] There were 22 outbreaks of plague in Venice between 1361 and 1528. [43]
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia, and peaking in Eurasia from 1321 to 1353. Its migration followed the sea and land trading routes of the medieval world.
The plague was recognized as being contagious although the agent of contagion was unknown; as treatment, Chauliac recommended air be purified, venesection (bleeding), and healthy diet. The outbreak of plague and widespread death was blamed on Jews, who were heretics , and in some areas were believed to have poisoned wells; Chauliac fought ...