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How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
by University of Exeter

by Stephanie Baum & Robert Egan

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-misread-arabic-tale-misled-generations.html

Black death at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/698

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Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death reflects the social upheaval and terror that followed the plague, which devastated medieval Europe.

A moral work depicting Death's triumph over worldly things, symbolized by a great army of skeletons ravaging the Earth. In the background is a barren landscape where scenes of destruction continue to unfold. In the foreground, Death, riding a red horse at the head of his armies, destroys the world of the living, who are led to an enormous coffin with no hope of salvation. All social classes are included in the composition, with neither power nor devotion able to save them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#/media/File:The_Triumph_of_Death_by_Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder.jpg

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Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)

An encyclopedic tome of health advice that unpicks the biases of its time.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plain-home-talk/?utm_source=newsletter

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Title page of Edward Bliss Foote, Plain Home Talk About the Human System—the Habits of Men and Women—the Cause and Prevention of Disease—Our Sexual Relations and Social Natures (New York: Murray Hill, 1896).

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