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The 60 pages that link to Black Death, each with the reason it gives.

• Silk RoadRelated: The route moved disease as efficiently as commodities; the pandemic is its darkest consequence.

• Mongol EmpireRelated: Imperial-era trade and travel networks formed part of the wider setting for plague transmission.

• Hundred Years' WarRelated: It disrupted the populations and economies on which both kingdoms relied during the conflict.

• QuarantineRelated: The plague threat drove early European practices of isolating arrivals and restricting movement.

• Historical demographyRelated: Its mortality shock transformed population size, labor markets, and subsequent recovery.

• Middle EnglishRelated: Labor and social changes after the plague accompanied English’s expanding public use.

• ManorialismRelated: Labor scarcity after the plague weakened customary service and bargaining relations on many estates.

• SerfdomRelated: Labor scarcity after the plague weakened serfdom in parts of western Europe while prompting new controls elsewhere.

• Florentine RenaissanceRelated: Its demographic and economic aftermath preceded the conditions from which Florence’s cultural expansion emerged.

• Edward III of EnglandRelated: The plague struck England during Edward’s reign and transformed labor, society, and royal finances.

• Ibn KhaldunRelated: The epidemic killed members of Ibn Khaldun’s family and marked the world of his youth.

• Treaty of BrétignyRelated: Its demographic and economic upheaval weakened the kingdoms negotiating the treaty.

• Medieval artRelated: Its demographic and social upheaval altered the settings in which late medieval art was made.

• Peasants' RevoltRelated: Population loss strengthened workers’ bargaining power and intensified disputes over wages and labor obligations.

• SienaRelated: The 1348 outbreak sharply reduced Siena’s population and interrupted its growth.

• Giovanni BoccaccioRelated: The plague in Florence provides the frame for the storytelling in The Decameron.

• Philip VI of FranceRelated: It reached France during Philip’s reign and sharply reduced the kingdom’s population.

• Steppe nomadsRelated: Eurasian connections strengthened under Mongol rule helped disease spread along trade routes.

• Steppe empireRelated: Eurasian networks under Mongol successor states helped connect regions through which plague spread.

• The DecameronRelated: The plague in Florence prompts the ten young people to leave the city and tell stories.

• CondottieroRelated: Population loss and political disruption formed part of the environment in which military companies operated.

• The Seventh SealRelated: The film sets its fictional journey amid plague, drawing on medieval European catastrophe.

• Ibn KathirRelated: Its arrival in the Mamluk realm marked the troubled period in which Ibn Kathir lived and wrote.

• Danse macabreRelated: The pandemic intensified the cultural presence of death, though the motif’s origins are not reducible to it.

• Eurasian nomadsRelated: Eurasian trade and travel networks helped connect regions through which plague spread.

• Genoese coloniesRelated: The epidemic spread through connected Eurasian trade routes that included Genoese Black Sea ports.

• Guillaume de MachautRelated: The plague’s devastation forms the historical background of Machaut’s Le Jugement du roi de Navarre.

• Medieval urbanizationRelated: Dense urban settings shaped plague transmission and the demographic shocks that followed.

• Price RevolutionRelated: Its demographic shock preceded the population recovery that increased demand.

• Brown ratRelated: Brown rats are often associated with plague history, though the role of rats and fleas varies by outbreak.

• Mongol conquestsRelated: Mongol-era connections overlapped with routes through which plague spread, though the precise pathways remain debated.

• Personifications of deathRelated: Plague-era images helped make death an immediate, collective presence in European art.

• Trade routeRelated: The movement of people and goods along Eurasian networks helped the plague spread.

• Byzantine Civil War (1341–1347)Related: The pandemic struck during the conflict, compounding demographic and economic devastation.

• Julian of NorwichRelated: Its aftermath formed part of the world of illness and loss surrounding Julian’s lifetime.

• MongolsRelated: The same connected trade networks that carried goods also facilitated disease transmission, though the routes and timing varied.

• Al-Nasir MuhammadRelated: The pandemic reached Egypt near the end of Al-Nasir’s reign and altered its society.

• Renaissance FlorenceRelated: Its severe demographic and economic disruption preceded Florence’s major cultural flowering.

• Agriculture in the Middle AgesRelated: Mass mortality disrupted labor supplies, land use, and rural obligations.

• History of EurasiaRelated: It illustrates how movement along connected routes could carry pathogens between regions.

• History of the Mediterranean RegionRelated: Mediterranean shipping helped carry plague between ports and into inland communities.