Black death: alternatives and connections

elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlight…

A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th cent…

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in an…

Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the…

The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.

(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…

(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…

(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly commo…

Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who set…

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.

One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague.

One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-th…

A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, we…