A pestisjárványok nyomában
On the Trail of the Black Death

Summary/Abstract: As one of the most destructive infectious diseases of all time, pestilence decisively has determined the population history of premodern Europe in forms of many pandemics. Besides the data of contemporary sources, the images of plague through historical ages are mostly influenced by the results of the molecular genetic researches. This paper gives a brief summary about the current status of investigations, while primarily focusing on the mortality caused by pestilence as well as on the epidemic process of the Great Pestilence.

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