| An Arab writer on the consequences of the Black Death for animals added another hideous dimension to our awareness of that fearful episode. |
| The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries. |
| Most of our understanding of the Black Death has come from documentary sources. |
| The Irish famine, from 1845 to 1848, was a unique event in modern European demography and its effects comparable to those of the Black Death. |
| A grain mill until the Black Death, it was then converted to fulling, but rebuilt to handle grain at the beginning of the 15th century. |
| The Black Death is said to have originated in Central Asia, to have been contracted from fur-bearing animals and to have been spread to Europe by ship rats and their fleas. |
