Plague pits of London
Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A scene showing monks, disfigured by the plague, being blessed by a priest. England, 1360–75 (Photo credit:...
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Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A scene showing monks, disfigured by the plague, being blessed by a priest. England, 1360–75 (Photo credit:...
View ArticlePlague – what exactly happened when the Black Death came to town?
Decameron. Plague (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Plague. The silent killer of the Middle Ages terrified people and rightly so. Medicine was rudimentary and in the face of a viral assassin like the Bubonic...
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