Most of our understanding of the Black Death has come from documentary sources. |
The arrival of the Black Death brought social and economic chaos, from which not even the Minster was immune. |
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. |
In Doomsday Book the twenty-first century is stricken by yet another pandemic, almost as deadly as the Black Death was in the fourteenth. |
Attempts to alleviate the sanitation problem were not helped by the Black Death itself. |
An Arab writer on the consequences of the Black Death for animals added another hideous dimension to our awareness of that fearful episode. |