Research topic: Black Death

Black Death (1347–52) Pandemic of plague , both bubonic and pneumonic, which killed about one-third of the population of Europe (200 million) in two years. It was first carried to Mediterranean ports from the Crimea and spread throughout Europe, carried by fleas infesting rats. Plague ...

Black Death. An epidemic of catastrophic proportions, the Black Death first struck England in the summer of 1348, and spread rapidly from the south coast, reaching virtually all parts of the country within twelve months. This first outbreak probably killed between a third and a half of the ...