King Pest and his theatre Europe: Plague epidemics in history with respect to Bohemia and Central Europe

Abstract

In 1348, Europe encountered the experience of Black Death. An epidemy of bubonic plague that changed the face of the Old Continent for good.

How was this change? And how our predecessors dealt with it? What was their response to the epidemy?

Keywords

• plague epidemics
• history of medicine
• medieval age
• early modern period