Bubonic Plague A.K.A. “ Black Death “ No one - peasant or aristocrat - was safe from the disease , and once it was contracted , a horrible and painful death was almost a certainty . The dead and dying lay in the streets abandoned by frightened friends and relatives . The Black Death was one the major scourges of the Middle Ages . It killed indiscriminately without remorse or thought of consequences . Because the disease was so wide spread , …showed first 75 words of 358 total…

…showed last 75 words of 358 total…death killed a third of Europe’s population . The rein of terror lasted for twenty years in the fourteenth century . This horrible disease killed young and old , rich and poor . The plague knew no boundaries . Today we might think that the beliefs of the fourteenth century were barbaric and archaic , but it has only been in the last one hundred years that scientists and doctors have discovered the cause of the bubonic plague . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**