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The disease continues to affect populations around the world today. The Black Death of 1348 famously killed half of the people in London within 18 months, with bodies piled five-deep in mass graves.

Michael Wolgemut, Dance of Death in the «Nuremberg Chronicle, (ca. 1493). Photo: Ernst Bjerke.

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Turmoil, crisis and the creation of a state, from Magna Carta to the horrors of the Black Death. Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning ...

New historical research is revealing how medieval mass tourism helped revive key aspects of England’s economy after the Black Death. At least a third of the population died as bubonic plague ...

The period was also marked by growing personal freedom, with the banning of slavery within England by the English church in 1102 and the rapid decline of serfdom after the Black Death of 1348-49 ...

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The dietary and hygienic changes that people underwent as a result of the Black Plague could be the reason why human being are so fond of junk food 700 years later, scientists say.

Not just the Black Death Let's be clear. Many bad things did happen in the Middle Ages. The Black Death bubonic plague of the mid-1300s killed millions. There were brutal conflicts and wars.

Between 1347 and 1351, the Black Death killed between 30% and 50% of Europe. That gave leverage to the far smaller number of peasants who could demand compensation for their labor.