{"id":1278,"date":"2009-01-12T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2009-01-12T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T08:17:08","slug":"remembering-the-black-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Black Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a book entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Medieval-Britain-Short-Introduction-Introductions\/dp\/019285402X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1231183848&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction&#8221;<\/a>. The most dramatic event of this period was the arrival in England in 1348 of what later historians called the Black Death (at the time, it was known as &#8220;the great mortality&#8221;). At a stroke, the Black Death reduced the population of England by about a third.<br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Death\">the account<\/a> on Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The total number of deaths worldwide is estimated at 75 million people, approximately 25\u201350 million of which occurred in Europe The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe&#8217;s population.  It may have reduced the world&#8217;s population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> It remains the greatest pandemic in world history, but to this day, we&#8217;re not sure where it originated and what it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a book entitled &#8220;Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction&#8221;. The most dramatic event of this period was the arrival in England in 1348 of what later historians called the Black Death (at the time, it was known as &#8220;the great mortality&#8221;). At a stroke, the Black Death reduced the population of England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}