Roger steadfastly resisted temporal encroachments on the. He was the fourth avignon pope clement reigned during the first visitation of the black death 1348 1350 during which he granted remission of sins to all who died of the plague. 1291 6 december 1352 born pierre roger was head of the catholic church from 7 may 1342 to his death in 1352.
Pope clement vi latin. Way back in the 14th century public health officials didn t understand viruses but they understood the. Social distancing and quarantine were used in medieval times to fight the black death.
One the great plague which lasted from the 14th to 17th centuries included the infamous epidemic known as the black death which may have killed nearly two thirds of europe in the mid 1300s. By january 1348 it had landed in venice and genoa. The black death arrived in italy by sea first making landfall in sicily in early october 1347.
The plague entered europe via italy carried by rats on genoese trading ships sailing from the. The disease caused by a bacillus bacteria and carried by fleas on rodents originated in central asia and was taken from there to the crimea by mongol warriors and traders. The black death was a plague pandemic which devastated europe from 1347 to 1352 ce killing an estimated 25 30 million people.
People would use magic praying and sugery to make the disease go away. About 3 4 of the population died from it. Rome was effected by the black death it was feared by everyone it started in 1347.
The dna of bubonic plague bacteria blamed for europe s great plague of 1348 has turned up in victims of a plague that shook the roman world in ad 541. The disease may have started in asia. The black death was an outbreak of disease that killed millions of people across europe and asia around 50 million people were killed by the bubonic plague and was at its worst between 1347 and 1351.
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Black death in rome. The black death also known as the pestilence the great mortality or the plague was the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history. The black death resulted in the deaths of up to 75 200 million people in eurasia and north africa peaking in europe from 1347 to 1351. Plague the disease caused by the bacterium yersinia pestis was the cause.
Plague the disease caused by the bacterium yersinia pestis was the cause. The black death resulted in the deaths of up to 75 200 million people in eurasia and north africa peaking in europe from 1347 to 1351. The black death also known as the pestilence the great mortality or the plague was the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history.
