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25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring 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 ...
Theories of the Black Death. 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 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. Originating in Asia, it spread west along the trade routes across Europe and arrived on the ...
A common term for the personification of death across Latin America is "la Parca" from one of the three Roman Parcae, a figure similar to the Anglophone Grim Reaper, though usually depicted as female and without a scythe. Mictlantecutli in the Codex Borgia. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the " Queen of Mictlan " (the Aztec underworld ...
The skeletons in the dance of death or danse macabre paintings often are of different social classes dancing together, representing how no amount of wealth can save one from death. [ 46 ] The painting motif was first found as fresco on a wall in a Paris cemetery and emphasizes how the living will someday join the dead.
During her doctorate degree, DeWitte received a Dissertation Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation to investigate the mortality patterns of the Black Death. In order to conduct this research, she drew from a sample of Black Death skeletons from the East Smithfield cemetery in London.
c. 1562. Medium. oil on panel. Dimensions. 117 cm × 162 cm (46 in × 63.8 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid. The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. [1] It has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1827.
Sedlec Ossuary. Coordinates: 49°57′43″N 15°17′18″E. Chapel interior. The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: Kostnice v Sedlci; German: Sedletz-Beinhaus) is a Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých), part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in ...