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47 minutes ago · Lice may have helped spread 'black death' plague. A fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection — that's the cause of the plague — depicted in orange/red in the glands. The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade.
3 days ago · Originating before 1348, this art form was not the result of the plague epidemics, but medieval artists found the iconic image a useful means to express the morbid and anxious views of death prevalent in the later medieval and early modern periods. Poems and murals painted on the walls of churches depicted Death, portrayed by skeletons, as ...
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47 minutes ago · Lice may have helped spread 'black death' plague. A fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection — that's the cause of the plague — depicted in orange/red in the glands. The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade.
47 minutes ago · The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient pandemic was how it spread so quickly. The common wisdom is that rat fleas were the big spreaders.
5 days ago · Siena argues that 18th-century concern about prison conditions should be more accurately identified as worry about the risk posed by the diseases which prisons harboured, and in doing so he traces an unbroken line of fear which stretched from the last great English plague epidemic of 1665 to the cholera outbreaks of the early 19th century.
2 days ago · Renaissance ideas and ways of thinking also began spreading to the rest of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Renaissance as a unified historical period ended in Italy with the fall of Rome in 1527 , and it was eclipsed by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation elsewhere in Europe by the end of the 16th century.
