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  2. 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]

  3. Black Death in medieval culture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Consequences of the Black Death - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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  6. Medieval medicine of Western Europe - Wikipedia

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    Walsh, James J. Medieval Medicine(1920), A & C Black, Ltd. Interactive game with medieval diseases and cures; Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress; Collection: "Death in the European Middle Ages" from the University of Michigan Museum ...

  7. Yersinia pestis - Wikipedia

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    In 2010, researchers in Germany definitively established, using PCR evidence from samples obtained from Black Death victims, that Y. pestis was the cause of the medieval Black Death. [ 61 ] In 2011, the first genome of Y. pestis isolated from Black Death victims was published, and concluded that this medieval strain was ancestral to most modern ...

  8. 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.

  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.