The summer of 1348 was abnormally wet. Grain lay rotting in the fields ... It isn't clear exactly when or where the Black Death reached England. Some reports at the time pointed to Bristol, others to ...

The Black Death The plague that killed a quarter of the people of Europe in the years 1348–1350 is still studied to shed light on human behavior under conditions of universal catastrophe By ...

When the Black Death hit London, England in 1348 CE, it began to affect the English language. Due to the class struggle imposed on England by the Norman Conquest in 1066 CE, the linguistic makeup of ...

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes ...

The disease quickly spread throughout the country. The first recorded case of the Black Death in England was in June 1348. Bubonic plague was spread by rats, which were commonly found in homes ...

The Black Death arrived in England in June 1348 by way of Melcombe Regis, now part of the town of Weymouth in Dorset. To make so confident an assertion is, of course, foolhardy. Bristol, Southampton ...

"An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies on 24 April 1981 in Toronto" ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

One possible explanation for the high rate of “pneumonic” Black Death is that two disease strains were at work in 1348 and l349. The Manchurian outbreak of pneumonic plague in 1911 arose from ...

The date of the Big Bang is constrained by the aDNA. It cannot be younger than the London Black Death Cemetery's foundation (1348) and closure (1350), and it is unlikely to be older than the ...