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From the lens The Black Death.
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PamelaU
May 17, 2012 @ 5:34 am | delete
- We do owe a lot to this terrible event, and it's good that you looked at the end of serfdom, as most people don't know about this surprising knock-on effect of the black death.
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milesryley
Feb 10, 2012 @ 7:53 pm | delete
- Informative lens, thanks. You might like my dramatization of the plague's returning. See my novel 'This Son of York'.
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SilmarwenLinwelin Feb 2, 2012 @ 11:51 am | delete
- It made me think how some times unfortunate events trigger beneficial changes. It must have been such a miserable and dark time for those people though.
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JoshK47
Feb 2, 2012 @ 10:26 am | delete
- Such a terrifying period of history - presented quite nicely on this lens. Very informative! Blessed by a SquidAngel!
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fugeecat
Jan 22, 2012 @ 11:58 am | delete
- Can you imagine the chaos? When everyone is ill, the people who are willing to care for the ill are terrified and suffering unimaginable grief.
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waldenthree.net
Jan 2, 2012 @ 8:00 am | delete
- Valuable topic. Let's do a community tv show someday as follow up on memory of the "black death". I have studied this topic from "great minds' on economic impact on Europe. Go back for deeper knowledge and revisit to this topic. Congrads on your Squidoo level. Going for level 55 now. See you again soon. THanks.
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Luv2help
Dec 15, 2011 @ 8:09 am | delete
- Wow, perhaps the birth of unlucky 13!
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ElizabethJeanAllen
Dec 6, 2011 @ 6:39 pm | delete
- It's scary. I can't imagine on-third of the population dying in such a short span of time. I've read little about it but you caught my interest.
Thanks for sharing.
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iijuan12
Dec 2, 2011 @ 10:34 pm | delete
- That was a very sad part of history. Very informative lens!
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pawpaw911
Aug 26, 2011 @ 7:34 am | delete
- It is a terrible, but interesting part of history.
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AddaptAbilities Aug 10, 2011 @ 4:03 pm | delete
- A lot of great information. I appreciate the fact that you've actually read the books you recommend. *blessed*!
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lovetouring
Jun 8, 2011 @ 4:21 pm | delete
- In Westminster abbey there are 13 or so Monks buried under the stone walkway near the Cloister garden, all who whom fell victim to the black death. Worth including in your visit if interested.
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NYThroughTheLens
Apr 25, 2011 @ 4:50 pm | delete
- Informative and riveting lens.
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pheonix76
Apr 1, 2011 @ 5:09 pm | delete
- Informative lens on the black death. Cannot imagine burying my loved ones, what a horrible time this must have been.
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FlorianFisher
Mar 29, 2011 @ 3:57 am | delete
- very informative and nice presentation
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wildlens
Mar 17, 2011 @ 1:43 pm | delete
- Dreadful subject, but great reading. Very interesting and well done lens. Thanks!
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nousdementor
Mar 12, 2011 @ 6:34 am | delete
- very very interesting....loved reading it...
Great work
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JustinNapier
Jan 4, 2011 @ 2:40 pm | delete
- Very good lens. It's hard to imagine 1/3 of known society dying. I'm really interested in the first picture of the bird-being. I've seen it in something else; do you know anything about it?
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blastfromthepast
Jan 4, 2011 @ 5:53 pm | delete
- Thanks for your feedback, Justin. Here is the image information: "Doktor Schnabel von Rom" ("Doctor Beak from Rome") engraving, Rome, 1656. The image shows physician attire for protection from the Bubonic plague or Black death. The physician is wearing a long cloak, a face mask with crystal covers for the eyes and a long beak containing pleasant-smelling herbs.
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BatmanSuperman
Dec 24, 2010 @ 8:50 am | delete
- very interesting lens :)
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GeoffSteen Nov 22, 2010 @ 11:50 am | delete
- What a fascinating lens! I've never seen pictures like these (from around the actual time of the plague) before. I can't begin to imagine what it would be like if something like this happened in our society today.
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Irenemaria Oct 13, 2010 @ 1:45 pm | delete
- Sad that religion always in involved in horror and suffering!
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skiesgreen
Jun 30, 2010 @ 4:24 pm | delete
- "What a horror but great information on this ugly history. *-*Blessed*-* and featured on Sprinkled with Stardust"
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CorinneFloyd Jun 22, 2010 @ 1:57 am | delete
- Interesting topic. I remember a picture like the one at the top of your lens in a Socials text book. I always remembered the explanation of how the term "Quack" came about when referring to doctors. Thanks for the info.
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JustinNapier
Jan 4, 2011 @ 2:41 pm | delete
- I'm interested in that picture too; do you have any info on it?
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lasertek
Feb 28, 2010 @ 7:40 pm | delete
- I have read about the Black Death before but I didn't know much information until now. Great lens! 5*
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pkmcr Dec 6, 2009 @ 4:16 pm | delete
- What an excellent lens and one of many that I can see you have on a variety of topics. Blessed by a Squid Angel :-)
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KimGiancaterino May 18, 2009 @ 1:56 pm | delete
- My step-son was just asking me about the plague, so now I can refer him here! Very nice work... I'm featuring this on my Squid Angel Diary this week.
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Janusz
Apr 19, 2009 @ 1:16 pm | delete
- Well done! Blessed by a Squid Angel :)
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BusyQueen
Mar 14, 2009 @ 1:46 am | delete
- Thanks for sharing your knowledge. It's well done. 5 *****'s and yes very scary.
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SemperFidelis
Aug 6, 2008 @ 8:22 am | delete
- Yikes! The black death is scary!
Blessed by a Squid Angel today! :)
Colleen ~ www.squidoo.com/squid-angel
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poddys
Jul 24, 2008 @ 10:06 pm | delete
- A good start to a nice lens. 5***** Whenever I think about the Black Death though, I think either about the opening sections of Monty Python and The Holy Grail ("Bring Out Your Dead"), or Islington in London, where I lived in the late 1970's and had to walk past what was a plaque burial pit every day. Still never built on and quite creepy.
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LeslieBrenner May 3, 2008 @ 12:40 pm | delete
- Good start! PBS did a special on the Plague, Secrets of the Dead, which you might want to add. The Plague followed trade routes. The bacterium responsible, Yersinia pestis, can also turn into pneumonic plague, which is spread person to person through the air and is almost always lethal as well. After successive waves of the disease, a gene mutated in some people providing them immunity.
But what's really interesting is that there is a connection between the plague immunity gene and resistance to HIV. The PBS show goes into it.
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