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The bubonic plague, or as it is more familiarly known, The Black Death, swept through Europe in the mid 14-century. The epidemic is said to have killed off 25 to 50 percent of the European population between 1347 and 1351. The debilitating disease took only three to five days to kill an untreated victim. The plague had negative, social effects on Europe, being a contributing factor to the cause of the Peasants’ Rebellion, as well as serious Economic hardships …

…classes, the hardest hit after the plague, in a worse position than they were before. The morality figures for the Black Death will never be known. Although marriage and birth rates increased after the plague, recurrent plagues never allowed population to recover to pre-plague levels. The social and economic repercussions of the epidemic were catastrophic. The plague is known world wide, and will be remembered as one of the worst epidemics in history. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**