The Black Death in the Middle East and Europe

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

 The Black Death plague in the 14th and 15th centuries was a loss of  population on the order of between 30 and 50 percent. Looking at the huge losses of population had  serious repercussions throughout Europe and the Middle East. Specifically in England and Egypt.

Lecture by Stuart Borsch, Assistant Professor in History Department at Assumption College

Given at the Epidemics Then & Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World conference at the University of Chicago on June 27, 2006 Here