Some researchers now believe that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, originated in the village where builders of Tutankhamun's tomb lived. |
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The arrival of the Black Death brought social and economic chaos, from which not even the Minster was immune. |
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A grain mill until the Black Death, it was then converted to fulling, but rebuilt to handle grain at the beginning of the 15th century. |
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The Irish famine, from 1845 to 1848, was a unique event in modern European demography and its effects comparable to those of the Black Death. |
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The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries. |
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An Arab writer on the consequences of the Black Death for animals added another hideous dimension to our awareness of that fearful episode. |
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Europe was suffering under the Black Death, and the papal schism had brought political and theological upheaval. |
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In Doomsday Book the twenty-first century is stricken by yet another pandemic, almost as deadly as the Black Death was in the fourteenth. |
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Attempts to alleviate the sanitation problem were not helped by the Black Death itself. |
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Most of our understanding of the Black Death has come from documentary sources. |
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That is as true today as it was at the time of Black Death, when the links between disease and commerce first became apparent. |
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The statement also implies that the Black Death ended before the Renaissance. |
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To say that the Black Death ended and the Renaissance began is not only a simplification, but incorrect. |
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The Black Death is said to have originated in Central Asia, to have been contracted from fur-bearing animals and to have been spread to Europe by ship rats and their fleas. |
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The Black Death was sadly a recurring event, with at least three major outbreaks starting in the 6th and 7th centuries. |
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Regardless of this, the casualty figures for the Black Death were massive. |
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It is possible that the popular religious author Richard Rolle, who died on 30 September 1349, was another victim of the Black Death. |
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Ockham was living in Munich at the time of his death, on 10 April 1347, two years before the Black Death reached that city. |
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Among the most immediate consequences of the Black Death in England was a shortage of farm labour, and a corresponding rise in wages. |
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Starting with the Great Famine in 1315 and the Black Death from 1348, the population of Europe fell abruptly. |
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Following the Black Death and the agricultural depression of the late 15th century, population began to increase. |
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It has also been argued that the Black Death prompted a new wave of piety, manifested in the sponsorship of religious works of art. |
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The Black Death was a pandemic that affected all of Europe in the ways described, not only Italy. |
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The Black Death caused greater upheaval to Florence's social and political structure than later epidemics. |
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A factor that promoted the spread of secularism was the inability of the Church to offer assistance against the Black Death. |
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These troubles were followed in 1347 by the Black Death, a pandemic that spread throughout Europe during the following three years. |
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Society throughout Europe was disturbed by the dislocations caused by the Black Death. |
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Partly at the urging of landlords, governments attempted to legislate a return to the economic conditions that existed before the Black Death. |
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After the Black Death, many Europeans began to question the authority of the established Church. |
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During her early life, the Black Death hit the city of Norwich three times. |
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The remains are thought to be of victims of the Black Death in the 14th century. |
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This was practiced as a measure of disease prevention related to the Black Death. |
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Following the Black Death there was a change of ownership of the manor to the Neville family by 1367, but in 1391 Robert Hansard claimed it back. |
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It suffered a severe blow in 1349 when almost half the townspeople died of plague when the Black Death arrived in the town. |
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Notably, some historic populations have taken many years to replace lives after events such as the Black Death. |
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In 1348, the Black Death, a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed thousands over the following decade. |
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In October 1347, in Messina, Sicily, the Black Death first arrived in Europe. |
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The Black Death pandemic of 1348 left its mark on Italy by killing perhaps one third of the population. |
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In 1348 and 1349 Portugal, like the rest of Europe, was devastated by the Black Death. |
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The Black Death may also have promoted the use of vernacular English, as the number of teachers proficient in French dwindled. |
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The Black Death reached Yorkshire by 1349, killing around a third of the population. |
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After the year 750, major epidemic diseases did not appear again in Europe until the Black Death of the 14th century. |
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Soon after the toppling of many of the stones, the Black Death hit the village in 1349, almost halving the population. |
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The Black Death brought a halt to Edward's campaigns by killing perhaps a third of his subjects. |
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The only Plantagenet known to have died from the Black Death was Edward III's daughter Joan in Bordeaux. |
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In 1348, the Black Death struck England with full force, killing a third or more of the country's population. |
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In 1348, the Black Death, which had just arrived in Paris, began to ravage Europe. |
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One development as a result of the Black Death was the establishment of the idea of quarantine in Dubrovnik in 1377 after continuing outbreaks. |
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Based on genetic evidence derived from Black Death victims in the East Smithfield burial site in England, Schuenemann et al. |
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Renewed religious fervour and fanaticism bloomed in the wake of the Black Death. |
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By the end of 1350, the Black Death subsided, but it never really died out in England. |
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In England, it was not until 1823, that the medieval epidemic was first called the Black Death. |
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The Black Death also affected artistic and cultural efforts, and may have helped advance the use of the vernacular. |
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These types of infection probably both played a significant part in the Black Death, while a third strain was more rare. |
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There seem to have been very few victims of the Black Death at higher levels of society. |
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The Black Death came to Norway in 1349 and, like other cities in Europe, the city suffered greatly. |
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In 1349, the Black Death was inadvertently brought to Norway by the crew of an English ship arriving in Bergen. |
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Brown rats are sometimes mistakenly thought to be a major reservoir of bubonic plague, a possible cause of the Black Death. |
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They continued to have their own law and became almost completely independent after 1349, the time of the Black Death. |
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Iceland benefited from its relative isolation and was the last Scandinavian country to be struck by the Black Death. |
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In 1348, the Black Death reached England via merchant vessels calling at Southampton. |
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The epidemic known as the Black Death and an associated famine caused demographic catastrophe in Europe as the population plummeted. |
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In England, archaeologists have uncovered layouts of 14th century medieval villages, abandoned after crises such as the Black Death. |
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With such massive population drops caused by the Black Death, the tax revenues from this industry greatly diminished. |
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The plague known as the Black Death, which started in the Mongol dominions and spread to Europe, added to the confusion. |
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For example, the Black Death was thought to have been caused by both divine and natural origins. |
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However, demographic expansion continued until the arrival of the Black Death epidemic in 1347, when ca. |
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The Black Death originated in or near China and spread from Italy and then throughout other European countries. |
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When spring arrived, the Italian merchants fled on their ships, unknowingly carrying the Black Death. |
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It has been speculated that this operation may have been responsible for the arrival of the Black Death in Europe. |
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As the nations began to recover and repopulate after the Black Death, the increase in population placed greater demands on agriculture. |
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In 1349, the Black Death pandemic killed more than half the population of Northampton. |
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Then in 1346, Europe was struck with the Black Death and the population was reduced by up to a half. |
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The Black Death, which came to Denmark during these years, also aided Valdemar's campaign. |
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In 1349 the Black Death spread to Norway and had within a year killed a third of the population. |
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The plague is believed to be the cause of the Black Death that swept through Asia, Europe, and Africa in the 14th century and killed an estimated 50 million people. |
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The Black Death also affected arts and culture significantly. |
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The Mongols had cut off the trade route, the Silk Road, between China and Europe which halted the spread of the Black Death from eastern Russia to Western Europe. |
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The only member of the royal family who can be said with any certainty to have died from the Black Death was in France at the time of her infection. |
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The Decameron, by Boccaccio, is notable for its use of a frame story involving individuals who have fled Florence for a secluded villa to escape the Black Death. |
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He begins with the Church Fathers and then looks at the flourishing of millenarianism in AD 1000, the Black Death, millenarian sects during the Civil Wars, the Irvingites. |
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During the first half of 1349 the Black Death spread northwards. |
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It is impossible to establish with any certainty the exact number of inhabitants in England at the eve of the Black Death, and estimates range from 3 to 7 million. |
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This implies that around 50 million people died in the Black Death. |
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The churches and abbeys became major owners of large tracts of land, which proved important for the city's economic development, especially before the Black Death. |
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Whether or not this hypothesis is accurate, it is clear that several existing conditions such as war, famine, and weather contributed to the severity of the Black Death. |
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Depopulation stemming from the Black Death led to increased wages, static food costs and a resulting improvement in the standard of living for the peasantry. |
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This market has lasted for more than 1,000 years, enduring the Black Death, wars and other crises, and is still an important Norwegian fish trade. |
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Geraint Gruffydd he died in 1350, a possible victim of the Black Death. |
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Research shows that since 1300, the only periods with significant declines in wealth inequality in Europe were the Black Death and the two World Wars. |
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In the middle of the 14th century, Sweden was struck by the Black Death. |
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Demographic factors also contributed to upward pressure on prices, with European population growth after depopulation caused by the Black Death pandemic. |
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The demographic consequences of this famine, however, were not as severe as the plagues that occurred later in the century, particularly the Black Death. |
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Cities were also decimated by the Black Death, but the role of urban areas as centres of learning, commerce and government ensured continued growth. |
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The Black Death, a plague that ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351 did not significantly affect Poland, and the country was spared from a major outbreak of the disease. |
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The disease, more commonly known as the Black Death, created an epidemic that spread rapidly and wiped out a third of the population of the country. |
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As in much of Europe, the prosperity of Alsace came to an end in the 14th century by a series of harsh winters, bad harvests, and the Black Death. |
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There is a dark, old-fashioned feel to Black Death that makes it highly reminiscent of the classic 1968 Vincent Price chiller Witchfinder General. |
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The village appears in Domesday Book, suffered from the Black Death, witnessed Lollardy, the Reformation, the Civil Wars, enclosures, and expanded in the nineteenth century. |
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Around 1349, about half the population perished in the Black Death plague. |
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This trend was checked in the Late Middle Ages by a series of calamities, notably the Black Death but also including numerous wars and economic stagnation. |
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The classical view is that the many casualties among the nobility continued the changes in feudal English society caused by the effects of the Black Death. |
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This incident was among the earliest known examples of biological warfare and is credited as being the source of the spread of the Black Death into Europe. |
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The Black Death of the 14th century also blocked travel and trade. |
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