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  2. Black Death - Wikipedia

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    The Black Death was the second great natural disaster to strike Europe during the Late Middle Ages (the first one being the Great Famine of 1315–1317) and is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of the European population, as well as approximately 33% of the population of the Middle East.

  3. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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    Published in 1974, Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present was French historian Philippe Ariès's first major publication on the subject of death. Ariès was well known for his work as a medievalist and a historian of the family , but the history of death was the subject of his work in his last decade of scholarly life.

  4. Medieval medicine of Western Europe - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Ages contributed a great deal to medical knowledge. This period contained progress in surgery, medical chemistry, dissection, and practical medicine. The Middle Ages laid the ground work for later, more significant discoveries. There was a slow but constant progression in the way that medicine was studied and practiced.

  5. Origin of death - Wikipedia

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    The origin of death is a theme in the myths of many cultures. Death is a universal feature of human life, so stories about its origin appear to be universal in human cultures. [1] As such it is a type of origin myth, a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. No one type of these myths is universal, but ...

  6. Human history - Wikipedia

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    The Late Middle Ages were marked by difficulties and calamities. [267] Famine, plague, and war devastated the population of Western Europe. [268] The Black Death alone killed approximately 75 to 200 million people between 1347 and 1350. [269] It was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.

  7. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The protoscience of chemistry, and alchemy, was unsuccessful in explaining the nature of matter and its transformations. However, by performing experiments and recording the results, alchemists set the stage for modern chemistry. The history of chemistry is intertwined with the history of thermodynamics, especially through the work of Willard ...

  8. Weregild - Wikipedia

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    The compound noun weregild means "remuneration for a man", from Proto-Germanic *wira-"man, human" and *geld-a-"retaliation, remuneration". [2] In the south Germanic area, this is the most common term used to mean "payment for killing a man" (Old High German werigelt, Langobardic wergelt, Old English wer(e)gild), whereas in the North Germanic area, the more common term is Old Norse mangæld ...

  9. Black Death in England - Wikipedia

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    The omnipresence of death also inspired greater piety in the upper classes, which can be seen in the fact that three Cambridge colleges were founded during or shortly after the Black Death. [84] England did not experience the same trend of roving bands of flagellants, common on the continent. [85]