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21 de jun. de 2024 · This term, along with magna pestilencia (“great pestilence”), was used in the Middle Ages to refer to what we know today as the Black Death as well as to other outbreaks of disease. “Black Plague” is also sometimes used to refer to the Black Death, though it is rarely used in scholarly studies.
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Hace 2 días · European writers contemporary with the plague described the disease in Latin as pestis or pestilentia, 'pestilence'; epidemia, 'epidemic'; mortalitas, 'mortality'. In English prior to the 18th century, the event was called the "pestilence" or "great pestilence", "the plague" or the "great death".
23 de jun. de 2024 · Throughout history, humans have sought explanations for things that are beyond our normal control or understanding. While God is often credited as the sender of plagues or pestilence – usually to teach some moral lesson – we tend to focus our wrath on human scapegoats.
1 de jul. de 2024 · Covid-19 & Its Predecessors: Pandemics, Plagues, Pestilence, & Peste in Art. Plagues of Egypt (ca. 1440 B.C.E.) John Martin, The Seventh Plague, oil on canvas, 1823. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. TEXT: Plagues of Egypt.
29 de jun. de 2024 · In Exodus, the darkness is a time of pestilence, plague, and death (Exodus 10:21–22, 11:4–5); it also is a place of discovery and awe (Exodus 20:21), where Moses found the presence of the divine, the God “who made darkness his hiding place” (Gregory of Nyssa 1997, §164). Gregory of Nyssa, the fourth century bishop and mystic of ...
Hace 1 día · An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic. [1] .
1 de may. de 2024 · Pestilence had the power to generate disease, could cause instantaneous but temporary rapid aging and had the power to draw upon the "bodily decay" of other living beings to rejuvenate himself. Pestilence had extensive knowledge of chemistry beyond what was commonly known in the 19th century.
