The Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century. This is what writers and chroniclers called it, especially from the seventeenth century. "Vulgo et ab effectu atram mortem vocitabant" . ( J . I . Pontanus) : People called it black death for its effects. The expression atra mors, black death and cruel death, was already used by Latin and Greek writers. . . .
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