Résumé
This document presents a research about the Black Death (also known as the Pestilence or the Great Plague) in England, between 1347 and 1351. After describing both historical and social context before the epidemy, analysis of the consequences of the Pestilence in England, and more globaly in Europe.
Extract:
From both demographic and economic perspectives, the Pestilence, later referred as the Black Death, has been the most devastating pandemic that occurred in the Western world during the Middle Ages. This disease, transmitted to humans by rats, with symptoms such as high fever and the development of buboes around groins and armpits, hit the whole Eurasian continent between 1347 and 1350. In his book (...)
Contents:
I) Introduction
II) Socio-historical context
III) Evolution of the epidemy
IV) Consequences
V) Bibliography