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17 wrz 2010 · The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. Explore the facts of the plague, the symptoms it caused and how millions died...
16 kwi 2020 · The Black Death, also known as the Pestilence and the Plague, was the deadliest pandemics ever recorded. Track how it ravaged humanity through history.
In the years 1346–1353, a terrible disease swept over Western Asia, the Middle East, northern Africa and Europe, causing catastrophic losses of population everywhere, both in the countryside and in towns and cities.
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.
The “Black Death” is the name given by modern historians to the great pandemic of plague that ravaged parts of Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century.
1 paź 2005 · The author upholds the traditional argument that the Black Death was caused by bubonic plague and advances a new hypothesis that 60 percent of Europe’s population died in the epidemic, a figure that has been proposed previously only for certain localities and never as a general mortality rate.
The scholarly study of the Black Death began in Europe in the nineteenth century with the development of modern history based on source-criticism and social science. However, most of the research on the Black Death has been performed in the last four decades of the twentieth century.
