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Plate 5.7

Plate 5.7
The Plague. Painting on wood (1510)

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Among the innumerable epidemics of the period, major problem continued to be most feared of all diseases, the disease to which other epidemics were often compared in order to convey their horribleness: plague. It was regularly represented as an arrow sent from God (Plate 5.7) . the years 1348-9 had witnessed the pandemic of plague now known as the ‘Black Death’, which killed probably a third of the population of Europe. While never again occurring on that scale, plague nevertheless continued to break out in epidemic form repeatedly, and it is, unfortunately, safe to assume that every year between 1494 and 1649 plague was killing its thousands and its tens of thousands suddenly and horribly somewhere in Europe. The modern historian of plague, Jean-Noel Biraben, has written that from 1348 to 1670 ‘the plague raged in Europe every years, sometimes across vast regions, sometimes only in a few localities, but without omitting single annual link in this long and mournful chain’. It was not to be until 1665 in England in 1720 in Marseilles, that plague would make its last epidemic appearance in Europe. ~ Page 274

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