The Black DeathProbably the greatest natural disaster to ever curse humanity, the Black Death's lethality is legendary, killing between a quarter to over half of any given stricken area's population. Though historians suspect a first wave of bubonic plague struck the Mediterranean area between 571 - 760 C.E., there is no doubt that the plague was carried west by the Mongol Golden Horde in the late 1340s as they raided as far west as Constantinople, where it is believed that Genoese traders became infected, and then carried, the disease into European and northern African ports after their escape. Within about two years practically the entire European continent and much of North Africa had been burned over by this disaster of apocalyptic proportions. |
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Plague in the Middle Ages | 1 |
The Black Death and Modern Medicine | 15 |
The Black Death and Medieval Medicine | 33 |
Effects of the Black Death on European Society | 57 |
Psychosocial Reactions to the Black Death | 73 |
European Art and the Black Death | 89 |
Individual and Civic Responses in Cairo | 103 |
The End of the Black Death and | 123 |
Biographies | 131 |
Primary Documents | 151 |
Glossary | 193 |
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