A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
A phrase used in the Middle Ages to describe bubonic plague. (The ‘blackness' was caused by bleeding under the skin. Over 50 per cent of all cases were fatal)
Bubonic plague that ravaged Europe and Asia in the mid-fourteenth century and reappeared periodically in Europe for generations. (Lynch, Joseph H. The Medieval Church: A Brief History, 360)
The plague, believed to have been bubonic plague, swept western and central Europe several times during the 14th century, killing 1/3 of the population of 20 million people. In addition to the social and personal upheaval the plague brought, it also destroyed the economy of the areas struck, increasing the price of labor and reducing the value of land.
The plague. A virulent contagious bacteria often found in rats. Humans can get the disease from fleas.
bubonic plague that first struck Europe in 1347. It spread in either the bubonic form by flea bites or in the pneumonic form directly from the breath of one person to another. In less virulent forms, the disease re-appeared many times until 1701. (p. 381)
also known as just the "plague"; Bubonic and Pneumonic Plagues that ravaged Europe starting in the mid-14th Century and continuing with lesser outbreaks through the 19th Century; the Bubonic Plague was named for the "bubos" or red colored rings that appeared on the victim and it was not as fatal as the Pneumonic Plague which, as the name indicates, involved pneumonia symptons
Bubonic plague spread by rats that took many lives across Europe
The bubonic plague, responsible for widespread death in 14th century Europe.
The combination of bubonic and pneumonic plagues that entered Europe along Eastern trade routes, sweeping across Europe between 1347-1350. Spread by rats carrying infected fleas, the Plague eliminated between one-fourth and one-third of the population in its first wave. Subsequent outbreaks, which continued into the seventeenth century were far less severe. The Black Death had profound effects on all aspects of medieval life and deeply affected the psychological outlook of Europeans.
The bubonic plague that hit Europe and spread to Egypt, decimating the population in the 14th century. En.
The Black Death was a mid-fourteenth century disease epidemic that ravaged Europe and helped cause an economic decline. This outbreak of the pneumonic form of the bubonic plague killed perhaps a third of Europe's population.