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19 unusual facts about Black Death


1994 plague epidemic in Surat

Much like the Black Death that spread through medieval Europe, some questions still remain unanswered about the 1994 epidemic in Surat.

Acral necrosis

The striking black discoloration of skin and tissue, primarily on the extremities ("acral"), is commonly thought to have given rise to the name "Black Death," associated both with the disease and the pandemic which occurred in the 14th century.

Bubo

According to historical records, buboes were characteristic of the pandemic responsible for the Black Death and perhaps other ancient pandemics.

Cowlam

Cowlam was previously a medieval village that was deserted after the Black Death.

Hôpital de La Grave

During the periods in which the plagues ravaged Toulouse, the Hôpital de La Grave was used care for those afflicted with the disease, isolating them from the beggers, injured and disabled.

John II of Isenburg-Limburg

His eldest brother, Gerlach VI of Isenburg-Limburg, had died in the Black Death without male heirs in 1365, and his next oldest brother Hermann had died the same year.

Justus Hecker

(The Black Death in the 14th century: from the sources by physicians and non-physicians)

Leirvík

It is said that all inhabitants died in 1349 because of the Black Death.

Michael Wood's Story of England

Kibworth goes through the worst famine in European history, and then, as revealed in the astonishing village archive in Merton College Oxford, two thirds of the people die in the Black Death.

Monsieur Vincent

It depicts his struggle to help the poor in the face of obstacles such as the Black Death.

Novella

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), author of The Decameron (1353)—one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), aka Marguerite de Valois, et. alii., author of Heptaméron (1559)—seventy-two original French tales (modeled after the structure of The Decameron).

Peter Atte Wode

This commission was formed in several counties in England to provide an enforcement for new laws that had been enacted to regulate labor and provide for peace after the Black Death decimated the population in 1348-49.

Puertollano

In 1348 however, the Black Death devastated the village, killing all but 13 inhabitants.

Quiet Killer

In the hospital, it does not take long before Dr. Nora Hart (Jackson) concludes that Sara has died of the Black Death, which has not occurred in centuries.

Sandvík

In 1349 the village became deserted, the inhabitants having been wiped out by the Black Death.

Skúvoy, Skúvoy

In the 14th century the plague (The Black Death) killed all inhabitants of the island except for one young girl.

Sweet Empire

In February 2010 the first recordings, entitled The Flood, were released on 7" and cassette via the label Black Death.

Velbastaður

There has been a village here for many centuries, but it was deserted for some time after the Black Death in 1349.

Willy Ustad

A priest described in a historical novel about the Black Death makes an appearance as a ghost several hundred years later in a Fire søsken novel.


Crisis of the Late Middle Ages

In 1337, on the eve of the first wave of the Black Death, England and France went to war in what became known as the Hundred Years' War.

Dolgarrog

In the 1350s the Black Death took a heavy toll in the lower Conwy Valley, particularly among the bond tenants regulated by the King's officers from Aberconwy, Edward I's new English borough.

Emun Elliott

Elliott made his film debut in The Clan (2009), and also appeared in Black Death (2010), opposite Sean Bean.

Healing Through Fire

Ben Ward said of the album: "It's not a concept album at all, but we are using the theme of the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire that followed for a lot of lyrical and musical influence. It's definitely the strongest material we have written".

Historical demography of Scotland

From the formation of the Kingdom of Alba in the tenth century, to before the Black Death reached the country in 1349, estimates based on the amount of farmable land, suggest that the population may have grown from half a million to a million.

Inflation

Another (although much less common) cause can be a rapid decline in the demand for money, as happened in Europe during the Black Death, or in the Japanese occupied territories just before the defeat of Japan in 1945.

La Chaise-Dieu

The fresco of the Dance of Death (ca 1470) is a famous example of this motif, which gained wide currency following the visitations of the Black Death.

Långa raden

Poor and homeless people of Stockholm emerged in great numbers following the fatal Battle of Poltava 1709, but were considerably decimated by the Black Death, which hit the city the following year.

London Dungeon

The show incorporates events such as the Black Death and the Gunpowder Plot, and includes characters such as "The Torturer", "The Plague Doctor", and "The Judge".

Popular revolt in late-medieval Europe

Fourth, the 14th century crisis of famine, plague and war put additional pressures on those at the bottom.

Pyrton

Standhill had been a hamlet with a manor house, but in the 14th century it was depopulated in the Black Death.

Walworth, County Durham

Following the Black Death there was a change of ownership of the manor to the Neville family by 1367, but in 1391 Robert Hansard claimed it back.

War of Chioggia

Genoa, having suffered previous defeats at the hands of the Venetians, had emerged from submission to the Visconti tyrants of Milan during the fourteenth century, although it had also been severely weakened by the Black Death of 1348 which took a toll of 40,000 on the city.