Questions tagged [black-death]
Questions regarding the history of the Great Plague (a.k.a. the Black Death), a devastating pandemic which claimed the lives of 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia from 1347 to 1351 AD.
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Are there any surviving documents of deaths or life expectency of 14th century Europe
I am writing a paper on how life expectancy improved after the Black Death, but I am having trouble scouring for sources. I am wondering if anyone on History SE knows of any tabular data for Europe ...
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How was ownership of property managed during the Black Death, when so many original owners had died?
Historically, in the UK if a property owner died intestate with no heirs, the property ownership went to the Crown under an escheat. During the Black Death, in the 12th century, the population of ...
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Do we know anything in detail about the effect of the black death on Sub-Saharan Africa?
When I was in school 20-odd years ago, historians were still unsure about whether or not the black death traveled through Sub-Saharan Africa to any large degree, in large part because the vector (...
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Was Vox In Rama a factor of the quick spread of the Black Plague?
I am working on a project for a history class and my topic was the bubonic plague. I was researching when I came across multiple articles that claimed Pope Gregory IX - leader of the Roman Catholic ...
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Economic aftermath in Europe and the Middle East of the Black Death
The following excerpt is from Blinkist's summary of The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan:
Europe after the plague was an altogether different place. The
population had fallen dramatically, but this ...
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What was the mortality rate of the Black Death?
There are primary sources indicating high mortality in Italy. But that's it. The 1m+ death estimates seem to all originate from a single person writing in the 19th century (Gasquet). Gasquet has been ...
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Why didn't the Black Death result in favorable results for surviving peasants in China?
Black Death affected Europe and China alike.
In Europe, the Black Death resulted in social mobility of the peasants, and as a result, labor-saving innovations were introduced. All these laid ...
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How was the Black Death stopped?
I came to understand that the Black Death was transmitted through rats. But I can't find how it ended.
Was it the lack of people and a reduction of the trading system between countries that made it ...
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What was the reason for inflation in Britain after the Black Death?
According to the Wikipedia article Ordinance of Labourers 1349
During this outbreak [of Black Death], an estimated 30-40% of the population died. The decline in population left surviving workers in ...
