In the Middle Ages, with the Black Death, leprosy spread greatly. European expansion produced an enormous demographic crisis in America. The eradication of the plague in Europe was a result of hygiene, but it was followed by the appearance of yellow fever and cholera, endemic in Africa and ...
In the Middle Ages, with the Black Death, leprosy spread greatly. European expansion produced an enormous demographic crisis in America. The eradication of the plague in Europe was a result of hygiene, but it was followed by the appearance of yellow fever and cholera, endemic in Africa and ...
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The bacteriumYersinia pestiscauses plague. In the natural state, the bacteria infect wild rodents. Plagues can still be found in many areas of the world, but 95% of cases today occur in Madagascar and sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization states that between 1,000-2,000 cases ar...
records don’t show just how the three pigs were executed, though it was common for offending animals to be hanged or burned alive for their crimes. such is europe’s shameful and largely forgotten history of putting animal "criminals" on trial and either executing them or, for plagues of ...
It's an EpidemicExploring plagues and pandemics throughout history. History's Worst Flu Breakouts Epidemics and Social Unrest Immediately After the Spanish Flu Ended Life During the Spanish Flu Firsthand Accounts of the Spanish Flu The Medieval Dancing Plague ...
The cultural historian Paul Barber has made a strong case for the vampire as a creature of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's 1922 vampire film Nosferatu starred Max Schreck, who played the uncannily realistic vampire. The title is Slavic for "plague carrier," linking a history of European plagues ...
The problem of explaining why sexual behavior or perceptions of that behavior actually changed when they did plagues a number of these articles. Trumbach offers a finely drawn picture of how male sexual behaviors altered over the century, yet he is less successful in pinpointing just what pushed...
One of the fascinating stories is how we were blamed for the many plagues in Europe. Why were we blamed? We didn’t get sick like the rest of the population, so obviously (to them), we must have caused the plague. Why didn’t we get sick? Simple — before we eat, we wash our ...
Cole, L. (2021). Plagues, Poisons, and Dead Rats: A Multispecies History. In: McHugh, S., McKay, R., Miller, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39773-9_...