For 10 points, name this epidemic probably caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which killed half of the European population between 1347 and 1351.
The Paris College of Physicians attributed the cause of this event to the triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, while the Genoese were blamed for transmitting its cause after the city of Kaffa was attacked by Tartars carrying it. The phenomenon resulting in it had septicemic and pneumonic strains as well as the more well-known variety. Fear of it caused an increase in the popularity of the Brotherhood of the Flagellants, and a description of its societal effects in Florence was chronicled by Boccaccio in The Decameron. For 10 points, name this epidemic probably caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which killed half of the European population between 1347 and 1351.
The Paris College of Physicians attributed the cause of this event to the triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, while the Genoese were blamed for transmitting its cause after the city of Kaffa was attacked by Tartars carrying it.
{Black Death} [prompt on “bubonic plague”]