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THE SPREAD OF THE BLACK DEATH ACROSS EUROPE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

Graham Twigg, The Black Death,
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The Black Death of 1348-49 was the greatest biomedical disaster in European and possibly in world history. Its significance was immediately perceived by the wise Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, writing a few years later: “Civilization both in East and West was visited by a destructive plague which devastated nations and caused populations to vanish. It swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out in the entire inhabited world.” A contemporary Florentine writer referred to “the extermination of humanity.” ` Page 6

A third of at least of the Western Europe populatin died in what contemporaries called “the pestilence” (the term the Black Death was not invented until after 1800). This meant that somewhere around twenty million people died of the pestilence from 1347 to 1350. . . . Page 7
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