#black death

[moonmausoleum]

The Plague Visits Munich at Alter Peter Church Fantastical legends foretelling the Black Plague exist throughout Europe that would leave whole cities without any living. In Munich, Germany, a legend talks about a mysterious black hooded figure at the cemetery of St. Peter’s church being the omen of death. ...

The Plague Visits Munich at Alter Peter Church

[facts-i-just-made-up]

A second disease decimated Europe shortly after the Black Death, but it’s little known in history as it was deemed to have been mere plaguerism.

[medievalistsnet]

Medieval Records Reveal How Long Black Death Survivors Needed to Recover

Rare records from a medieval English village are offering new evidence about people who became ill during the Black Death but survived. The documents suggest that most needed three or four weeks before they were able to return to work.

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[deepfriedjunction]

[wisdomfish]

Neither is there any other cause of the Incarnation except this alone: He saw us bowed down to the ground, perishing, tyrannized by death; and He had mercy.

John Chrysostom (349-407)

[cr38fr3]

Rats of the Black Death (Newprint - 18x24; Charcoal)

[ur-folk]

Image from "Svartedauen" by Theodor Kittelsen. The rake means few will survive the visit from Pesta – the personification of the Black Death.