Difference between revisions of "Black Death"
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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_93823" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_93823" /> == | ||
<p> A pestilence which ravaged | <p> [[A]] pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_69313" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_69313" /> == | ||
<p> A name given to a succession of fatal epidemics that devastated the world from | <p> [[A]] name given to a succession of fatal epidemics that devastated the world from China to [[Ireland]] in the 14th century, believed to be the same as the Oriental plague, though attended with peculiar symptoms; the most serious was that of 1348, which, as is reckoned, stripped [[England]] alone of one-third of its inhabitants. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
Revision as of 02:20, 13 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A name given to a succession of fatal epidemics that devastated the world from China to Ireland in the 14th century, believed to be the same as the Oriental plague, though attended with peculiar symptoms; the most serious was that of 1348, which, as is reckoned, stripped England alone of one-third of its inhabitants.
