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The Black Death: Causes and Symptoms of the Plague
International Death Toll: Black Death, Spanish Flu, and COVID
Doubt Cast on Death Toll From the Black Plague
• Black Death: estimated death toll in European cities
Black Death
There were many theories at the time as to the origins of the Black Death.
We hope that this piece will help provide a glimpse into the mindset of the time surrounding the Black Death, and how the illness itself created such a deep impression on mankind.
Bettina Matthias of Middlebury College, whose Digital Weimar Exhibit inspired this project, and who graciously shared her ideas with me.
International Death Toll: Black Death, Spanish Flu, and COVID
The first to be so recognised did not appear until the 15th century, and those who intervened to help those afflicted by the plague that is, during their own lifetimes and not as post-mortem miraculous acts remained rare even during 16th and 17th centuries.
The peasants however were tied to the land, forced to work in order to pay their lord for their land through their servitude.
Meanwhile, Douai chronicles, monastic necrologies, and archival records recording, for example, the deaths of magistrates, and last wills and testaments show no certain signs of the plague entering that city until the plague of 1400.
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