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23 de may. de 2024 · Black Death. The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] . The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.
26 de may. de 2024 · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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- It is not known for certain how many people died during the Black Death. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plag...
- The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely...
- The plague that caused the Black Death originated in China in the early to mid-1300s and spread along trade routes westward to the Mediterranean an...
- Yersinia causes three types of plague in humans: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Although there is DNA evidence that Yersinia was present in vi...
- The effects of the Black Death were many and varied. Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which dev...
- The Black Death has also been called the Great Mortality, a term derived from medieval chronicles’ use of magna mortalitas. This term, along with m...
6 de may. de 2024 · Renaissance art, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and literature produced during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Europe under the combined influences of an increased awareness of nature, a revival of classical learning, and a more individualistic view of man.
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- Renaissance art is marked by a gradual shift from the abstract forms of the medieval period to the representational forms of the 15th century. Subj...
- Characteristics of Renaissance art, notably naturalism, can be found in 13th-century European art but did not dominate until the 15th century. Scho...
- Interest in humanism, a philosophy that emphasized the individual and the human capacity for fulfillment through reason, transformed the Renaissanc...
- The developments of the Renaissance changed the course of art in ways that continue to resonate today. Interest in humanism transformed the artist...
- Two of the most famous artworks in history were painted during the Renaissance: the Mona Lisa (c. 1503–19) and the Last Supper (c. 1495–98), both e...
Hace 2 días · What is Renaissance art? What does “Renaissance man” mean? Summarize This Article. Renaissance, period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages and conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values.
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Hace 3 días · Broadly speaking, this began in the 14th century with a Latin phase, when Renaissance scholars such as Petrarch, Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406), Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437), and Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) scoured the libraries of Europe in search of works by such Latin authors as Cicero, Lucretius, Livy, and Seneca.
Hace 3 días · The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500. The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period (and in much of Europe, the Renaissance ). [1] Around 1350, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt.
26 de may. de 2024 · The early 14th century marked the end of the Medieval Warm Period, a time of relative prosperity and population growth in Europe. However, this period came to an abrupt end in 1315 when heavy rainfall and flooding led to widespread crop failures and food shortages.
