The Black Death

Answer 1

According to a prognostication, the Black Death slayed between 30 and 50% of Europe's population in five years, making about twenty-five million people. This epidemic had lasting consequences on European civilization, especially after this first wave, then refit the disease appeared regularly in the various affected countries: between 1353 and 1355 in France, and between 1360 and 1369 in England. (Ho, 33-53)

The Middle Ages was crossed by numerous epidemics. Before the Plague of Justinian destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century and was probably causing the demographic deficit during the High Middle Ages in Europe. Leprosy prevails there also chronically since antiquity. Other more or less virulent epidemics and localized, and is often misidentified triggered sporadically. Except perhaps the burning sickness, which is due to food poisoning, most of these outbreaks coincide with shortages or famines that weaken the body.

Answer 2

Some historians have pointed out, not without a certain amount of cynicism that the difference between classical antiquity and Middle Ages was established by the baths. Medieval Europeans, by contrast, never bathe. Sometimes they do not change clothes throughout the year. Tailors and seamstresses stitching literally new clothes on people around Easter, and that was all for the year. (Herlihy, 29)

It goes without saying that when a new disease arrived in Europe, unsanitary conditions were helping to spread. And that's what happened with the "Black Death", a bacterium spread by rat fleas.

It is estimated that the bubonic plague killed nearly half the EU population, or about 25 million people.

Without having anything including the causes of this disease, the Europeans had no difficulty in identifying the perpetrators: They could be the Jews! Those latter procured the poison from the devil and poured into the wells of Christians - unless they do not vaporize into the air - ...