Black Death

The Onset  of the Black Death, described by Giovanni Boccaccio

Boccaccio: THE DECAMERON, "INTRODUCTION"

   PISTOIA, "ORDINANCES FOR SANITATION IN A TIME OF MORTALITY"

THE GREAT FAMINE 1315-1317
AND
THE BLACK DEATH, 1346-1351
The Black Death: Bubonic Plague The Black Death 
1347 - 1350 
Culprit: Oriental
Rat Flea		   The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 The Plague
Marchione di Coppo Stefani, The Florentine Chronicle The Pestilence Tyme: England During the Plague of 1348-1350   Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

Ordinance of Laborers, 1349

 

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