... devastating loss of people and of livestock and it reoccurred in four main stages throughout the Middle Ages. Firstly, the Justinian plague in the sixth century then the 1260 plague and later the Black Death plague followed by the nineteenth to twentieth century plague, conveys that the disease was never fully gone during the Medieval period. There were Great European epidemics and famine and it is argued that ... forms: Bubonic, which is more widely known as the form of the Black Plague, Pneumonic and Septicemic. The plague was highly contagious and had a knock out effect throughout Eu...

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