Age in medieval plagues and pandemics: Dances of Death or Pearson's bridge of life?

摘要

In October 1347 a trading ship from the Crimea with its crew dead and dying drifted into a harbour in Sicily, and black rats leapt ashore. The European phase of the Black Death had begun.rnAt the time they called it the Great Mortality, subsequently the "Great Pestilence" or the "Great Plague". Today we call it the "Black Death" and consider it as perhaps the deadliest pandemic ever to have struck humanity.