The Black Death (In Our Time)
1346 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the Black Death influenced the structure and ideas of Medieval Europe. In October 1347, a Genoese trading ship arrived at the busy port of Messina in Sicily and docked among many similar ships doing similar things. But this ship was special because this ship had rats and the rats had fleas and the fleas had plague.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1346
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Black Death (1346)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)