Since when were the Little Ice Age and the Black Death the Good Old Days?
The Black Death is thought to have originated in China and spread to Europe through trade.
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, by David Herlihy, edited by Samuel Cohn.
The Black Death killed one-third of Europe's population, wages rose and the return on capital and land fell.
And by 1350, the grim, cold climate brought about the dreaded Black Death.
In the 1300s, the Black Death killed an estimated 20 million to 30 million people in Europe, the NIH says.
But why is it that so many people yearn for a return to the cold, miserable conditions that spawned the Black Death?
After the Black Death killed a third of the population of medieval Europe, labour scarcity forced landowners to pay their workers better.
They say neither Asian flu after the first world war nor the Black Death in the Middle Ages did much economic damage either.
But first, the Supreme Court today overturned the conviction of a black death-row inmate in Texas on the grounds that prosecutors unfairly excluded blacks from his jury.
Six centuries after the Black Death ravaged Europe, the gruesomeness of the disease and its hopeless, unavoidable death sentence still assault the human psyche.
The start of the Black Death in 1348 will be the setting against which to explore fear, faith, economic ravagement and the imposition of political power.
Daniel Defoe may have written the first nonfiction novel "A Journal of the Plague Year, " published in 1722, an account of the year the Black Death decimated London.
Which begs the question: Why are Mitt Romney and global warming zealots yearning for a return to the conditions of the Little Ice Age and the Black Death?
Indeed, the decay of Congo's Belgian-built roads, which in 1960 ran to over 100, 000km, must rank as one of the greatest boons to forests since the Black Death.
The integration of China's 1.3 billion people will be as momentous for the world economy as the Black Death was for 14th-century Europe, but to the opposite effect.
Commerce was already associated with infection during the Black Death, though it would be hundreds of years before rats were singled out as its carrier, and the first quarantines followed soon after.
Thinking about witches began to change in the Fourteenth Century, particularly in the wake of the Black Death of 1347-1350, after which Europeans became increasingly fearful of conspiracies by maleficent underground forces, mostly imaginary.
London (CNN) -- Archaeologists working alongside builders on a new London rail link have turned up a grisly find that harks back seven centuries, to a time when Black Death stalked the medieval city.
Suspicions are that the dig has revealed a "plague pit" -- one of many mass graves used to dispose of the bodies of those who succumbed to the Black Death, or bubonic plague, in the 14th century.
In 1348 it played a pivotal role in the spread of the Black Death, it was a major departure point for the settlement of the Americas and a critical location for Britain's defense during World War II.
The fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, the collapse of trade and migration in the interwar years of the 20th century: all these either slowed the process of globalisation or stopped it in its tracks, albeit only temporarily.
And even though everyone was far more at the effect of natural forces (a couple of dry years, or a run of the black death, and it was all over), there was still a fairly direct correlation between working hard and doing well.
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The current wave of viral panic is of course the most recent chapter in a very long history of epidemics: Ebola in the 1990s, mad cow disease in the 1980s, polio in the 1930s and 1940s, the black death in the 14th century, and so on.
The Vikings who settled Iceland smoked, dried, salted or pickled just about anything to get them through the long Arctic winter and their descendents still occasionally indulge in the delicacies of their ancestors, washing it all down with Black Death, a caraway-flavored liquor that apparently goes well with rancid shark.
The incidents of carnage especially a young black mob burning a loathsome black constable to death are more numbing than revelatory.
In testimony in March 1988 on the death of black leader Steve Biko in 1977, police officers who interrogated him admit they beat him but still say his death was accidental.
The leading cause of death for black male teenagers is homicide, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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