The Black Death

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Lopez KJ (14 September 2005). "Q&A with John Kelly on The Great Mortality on National Review Online". Nationalreview.com. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012 . Retrieved 9 November 2016. More interesting was the analysis towards the end, regarding the long-term consequences of the plague and the arguments for and against it being the catalyst for long-term political and economic changes across Europe. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (24 September 2015). "FAQ: Plague". Archived from the original on 30 March 2019 . Retrieved 24 April 2017. A Company of Liars is a very fun reimagining of the Canterbury Tales (which I love!) The characters tell stories in much the same way, but they are running from the plague. This one has a lot of fun stories, as well as some mystery. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Translated by J. M. Rigg John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, 600 Newton Road, Iowa City, IA 52242-1098

Well, I finally got to the end of it. I appreciate the pain-staking time taken to compile the statistics, and that really, only the statistics from religious sects were available at the time, but it was a gruelling read, that I found repetitive. There was so much more going on at the time with the king forming the first parliament and trying to help the population, but the king is not even mentioned.

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What stands out - despite this being obvious - is the remarkable hold of religion on these people and the fatuousness of religion at this and any time. You're left begging for the reformation to happen, really.

The plague hits Wales, brought by people fleeing from Southern England, and eventually kills100,000 people there. Vikings, Crippled by Plague, Halt Exploration Snell M (2006). "The Great Mortality". Historymedren.about.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009 . Retrieved 19 April 2009.Ziegler relates how the plague played itself out in the different countries and cities for which he could find sufficient data. Other than that, the book is fun to read with lots of thoughts. I love books that help the readers ponder. Y. pestisalso heads east from Sicily into the Persian Empire and through Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, and south to Egypt, as well as Cyprus, which is also hit with destruction from an earthquake and deadly tidal wave at the same time. Beyond that, I learned something about the Flagellants (who I'd never heard of) and the persecution of the Jews (not that Christian Europe needed any additional excuse for that) as well as the state of medicine during the period.

The plague hits Marseille, Paris and Normandy, and then the strain splits, with one strain moving onto the now-Belgian city of Tournai to the east and the other passing through Calais. and Avignon, where 50 percent of the population dies. Michael of Piazza (Platiensis) Bibliotheca scriptorum qui res in Sicilia gestas retulere Vol 1, p. 562, cited in Ziegler, 1998, p. 40. The Decameron is a whole lot more than a story set during the plague, but the plague is the frame used by this renaissance writer to explore meaning and love. It’s a great classic, if that’s the kind of thing you are looking for. A Journal of the Plague Year by Dufoe Barras V, Greub G (June 2014). "History of biological warfare and bioterrorism". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 20 (6): 497–502. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12706. PMID 24894605.All European countries were still ruled by the Pope and the Catholic Church. The common belief was that the plague was a punishment from God for the sins of the people.

Anyways, OMG, look at the figures! That's more than the number of the dead during the Second World War! Looks like it didn't bring much of a change in the population-rich Far East, but that was certainly enough to end an era in the West. Issawi CP (1988). The Fertile Crescent, 1800–1914: a documentary economic history. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504951-0. They were accused of poisoning the wells with plague-causing magic powders. The fact that the Jews fell prey to the plague just the same as their Christian neighbors, and maybe even more in their cramped ghettos, made no difference. a b Antoine D (2008). "The Archaeology of 'Plague' ". Medical History. 52 (S27): 101–114. doi: 10.1017/S0025727300072112. S2CID 16241962.The Jews had always been disliked by Christians as "Christ killers" and now they were the perfect scapegoat to blame the plague on. Wunderli R (1992). Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen. Indiana University Press. p.52. ISBN 978-0-253-36725-9. There were strengths and weaknesses here. The concept is very cool: a reconstruction of a plague-era village based on the village's impressive records, using real data and names to develop a fictionalised narrative based in fact. The author has been researching the plague and the wider time period for many years and is therefore qualified to make highly educated guesses, but this is still first and foremost a fictionalised account. Each chapter begins with a brief italicised summary of the historical facts, and then the chapter proceeds as an account written as though by a member of the clergy keeping a historical record of the time.