HISTORY OF THE BLACK DEATH In 1346 an unusually virulent strain of plague inflicts eastern Asia and China. It seems to have elements both of bubonic plague (carried by fleas, particularly those which live on rats) and of the pneumonic variety, in which the plague bacilli are spread on the breath of infected victims.. http: //medievalsources.co.uk/blackdeath.htm
HWC, The Black Death You will find 23 pages of information on the Black Death. No pictures. http: //history.idbsu.edu/westciv/plague/
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530 http: //jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro...
Spreading of the Black Death Hundreds of thousands of people - men. women and children - are dying in every country in Europe, struck down by an epidemic of an apparently incurable plague which the healthy and afflicted alike call the Black Death http: //themiddleages.net/life/blackdeath.html
The Back Death The Black Death is the name given to the terrible epidemic which swept through Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century. The epidemic was caused by a particularly virulent form of bubonic plague... http: //homes.jcu.edu.au/~hipgt/medieval/black.htm
The Black Death From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between one third and one half of the population dead. This collection of sources traces through contemporary writings the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349 http: //medievalsources.co.uk/blackdeath.htm