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The Late Middle Ages in Europe Around (1300-1400) B.C, a lady name Yersinia who was a foremost actor played a vital role surviving in ground-squirrel populations around the globe and was the cause of spreading plague due to her idea of killing the less convivial hosts. “The Plague did not kill off the Middle Ages, but Yersinia played a critical role in shaping its final act” (Dutton, Marchand, Harkness 299). The Fourteenth Century was a time when Europe was filled with calamities, severe weather…

The Black Death killed over half of Europe’s population. It was an enormous downfall to European society, considering that half of the society was wiped out by it. Thriving worse in the cities and market places where there was the most human interactions take place and where most jobs were held, and even spreading to farmlands where human interaction was limited. The plague caused a major downfall in Europe’s society, killing off half of Europe’s population, killing farm animals and crops, and…

Back in medieval times, there were great battles and many moments of violence and warfare, along with torture and plenty of weapons and armor to go around. Life in the medieval time period would have been rough. Going day to day, working and wondering if this is the day you home and castle get taken over. Many people would work just average jobs. Working the average man’s job at a shop selling trinkets. Life in the medieval time period was a fearful one, with threats of conquest by other…

their own beliefs and knowledge about who and what to cherish. Geoffrey Chaucer demonstrates the different ways the people fall in love in The Canterbury Tales. It was written in the year of 1400, which was the most well-known piece of writing in medieval English that Chaucer wrote (Nikolopoulos). The Canterbury Tales begin with the general prologue with the arrival of spring, where the narrator describes the blooming of flowers and the birds singing. During this season of the year, English…

Let 's go back to approximately 1500 years ago, when the Middle Ages, or Dark Ages, began. During this era, life changed drastically for several Europeans. Not only did education and politics slowly wither away from people’s lives, but the economy broke down completely and left many citizens in an appalling situation. Without a strong and central government, the people had to take on a new approach, to ensure that societies and villages could run smoothly again. This new idea was called the…

shapes and sizes, and serve different purposes. In Medieval Literature, the purpose of a villain is to act as a foil for the hero character. In doing so, the villain brings out the qualities valued during Medieval times in the hero. This is done in three different ways. One way the villain brings out the hero is by acting as a character foil, and shining a bright light on the hero 's virtues. By displaying the very traits not valued in Medieval society, the villain provides a contrast to allow…

An important era that occurred in Europe that went from 500 to 1400 B.C.E. was known as the Middle Ages. The fall of Rome and the events that followed have been known to have multiple labels because of the different phases the era went through. The eras that best describe the Middle Ages would be The Dark Ages, the Age of Feudalism, and the Age of Faith. The Dark Ages was a time of sorrow and disgrace for the people. Barbarians attacked the towns, raped and killed people and after all this…

In the novel Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, a serve collapse occurred within the city. This outbreak affected many individuals, and the survival rate kept decreasing; 99.9% of the population has already been killed. The culprit to the collapse was known as the Georgia flu. This flu was extremely contagious. But in the novel, Mandel encounters on an interesting concept. She wants to explain that even before the collapse, life was still difficult. One way that Mandel demonstrates…

The Black Plague, also known as the Black Death, was declared as the “Greatest Catastrophe ever” (Benedictow). This disease swept over all of Europe and wiped out about one third of the population. This disease and its affects have been one of the biggest in history. The plague spread rapidly as it could be transmitted from person to person. The disease forever changed Europe’s history and population. The Black Death had huge effects on Europe based on how it spread, what the disease entailed,…

The Different Representations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a storytelling that belongs to the Middle Ages and the Arthurian tradition. “the romance, like its literary descendant, was often used by writers from the twelfth century on to state in various ways some of the issues that then seemed currently important” (Silverstein 260). This type of literature introduces the romance through the courtly love and the chivalry. The story is based on motifs from…