Epidemics & Pandemics · 1347 · Turning point
The Black Death
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The plague killed a third of Europe's population, dismantling feudal structures and the Church's monopoly on meaning. Dance of Death imagery, skeletal motifs, and memento mori became the visual language of a traumatized civilization.
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