The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people ... at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague. Various causes were put forward. Today we know that ...
At the time of the epidemic, most people would have called the disease 'the pestilence' or 'the Great Mortality'. The term 'Black Death' specifically refers to the outbreak of the plague disease ...
Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...
But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...
The Black Death is the most potent plague ... Legends of the Dead DLC that can help you keep disease outbreaks in check. Hospices provide extra plague resistance, presumably because they round ...