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  2. Category:Black Death - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to the Black Death (1346–1353), a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa , peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.

  3. Statute Concerning Diet and Apparel 1363 - Wikipedia

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    A Statute Concerning Diet and Apparel (37 Edw. 3. cc. 1, 3 - 19) (Latin: Statut' de Victu et Vestitu) was a sumptuary law introduced by the Parliament of England in 1363. It was one of a series of laws over a couple of centuries that form what are known as the Acts of Apparel.

  4. Black Death - Wikipedia

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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 disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.

  5. Black Death (game) - Wikipedia

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    Black Death, designed by Greg Porter, is a game in which players are diseases sweeping across medieval Europe in 1347. [1] The game components are: a board with a stylized map of the trade routes in medieval Europe; a 3-page rulebook; punch-out cardboard counters; a deck of Event cards; two 6-sided dice

  6. Black Death in England - Wikipedia

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    The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic, which reached England in June 1348. It was the first and most severe manifestation of the second pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria. The term Black Death was not used until the late 17th century.

  7. Peasants' Revolt - Wikipedia

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    The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of ...

  8. Category:Black Death in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Novels about the Black Death (2 C, 13 P) C. The Canterbury Tales (2 C, 50 P) D.

  9. Theories of the Black Death - Wikipedia

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    Theories of the Black Death are a variety of explanations that have been advanced to explain the nature and transmission of the Black Death (1347–51). A number of epidemiologists from the 1980s to the 2000s challenged the traditional view that the Black Death was caused by plague based on the type and spread of the disease.