طاعون الموت الأسود و جهود أوربا في مواجهته ق 14- ق17 م

Abstract EN

This article attempts to track the efforts made by Europe to confront the "Black Death" epidemic that afflicted it during the fourteenth century, which was considered as one of the worst epidemics mankind have ever known, because of the horrific demographic losses that it had left.

Unlike many other regions in the world, the authorities in Europe took the initiative to take several organized measures in order to besiege it and reduce its risk by creating plague houses to isolate the patients, and intensifying the domestic quarantine measures, along with many methods of prevention.

Being conscious of the difficulty of controlling a serious pandemic, such as the Black Plague, in spite of the limited potentials then, only the preventive measures undertaken by the central and regional authorities in Europe have proved effective in minimizing its losses and overcoming it by the seventeenth century, by the time it kept spreading in other regions till the nineteenth century.