The Black Plague

The Black Plague

: From the early fourteenth to late seventeenth century,
Europe was decimated by one of the most horrifying
pestilence's human kind has ever known(Coulton 493). The
killer's name was later to be recognized by the detrimental
consummation it had seized upon a person's life. It was
known as the Black Plague. This terrible epidemic exhausted
small towns across Europe, including the British Isles,
brutally killing an incredulous amount of people. The
disease had wiped out entire villages leaving dead bodies to
decompose within the gutters of streets and corners of
allies(Ziegler 17). Though people were introduced to the
severity of the plague, they were still mystified as to the
causes of the deadly disease. Because of this fact, a
parade of unconfirmed myths and questionable facts had
arisen concerning the sources of the abhorrent epidemic for
over five centuries(Coulton 493). In the nineteenth
century, the causes of the terrifying pestilence was
discovered and the Black Death was no longer
a conundrum. One myth, of the origin of the deadly plague
was said to be a result of medieval gas warfare. Yet
another myth, stated that the murderous disease was an
aftereffect of a great earthquake that occurred in Europe.
Scientists even believed that the epidemic was caused by
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heaps of unburned corpses left in churchyards(Beatty and
Marks 80). The last proven cause of the pestilence was
found to be a disease of rats and other related
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The Black Plague

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