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The bubonic plague
Title: The bubonic plague
Category: History / World History
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The bubonic plague
Cantor states that,
No one - peasant or aristocrat - was safe from the disease [bubonic plague], and once it was contracted, a horrible and painful death was almost a certainty. The dead and the dying lay in the streets abandoned by frightened friends and relatives (482).
This certainly paints an accurate and horrifying picture of the fourteenth century during the plague. The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death or The Plague, (Hindley 103) was one of …showed first 75 words of 1176 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1176 total…York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.
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