YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE BLACK DEATH ORIGINS OF THE DISEASE
There seemed to be no cure. There was such a fear that no one seemed to know what to do. When it took hold in a house, it often happened that no one remained who had not died." This observation by the Florentine chronicler and statesman, the Marehionne di Coppo Stefani, encapsulates the sense of complete helplessness that pervaded all the regions under siege from the Black Death in the mid-i4th century, the most catastrophic pandemic in human history. The world had never seen anything like it before, and medieval society was utterly unequipped to deal with the spread.
Now proven to have been caused by the bacterium , passed from the fleas on rats to humans, the killer plague had its origins an either eastern or central Asia in 1346. The following year, it was
