1349. In 1361-1362 the plague returned to England. The pandemic known to history as the Black Death entered England in 1348, and caused the death of between a third and more than half of the nation's inhabitants. The Black Death was the first and most severe manifestation of the Second Pandemic, probably caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria. Originating from Central Asia, it arrived on the British Isles from the English province of Gascony. Its first point of entry was the port of Weymouth, where it was first reported in June 1348. It reached London in the autumn of that year, and by the next summer it had covered the entire country. By December 1349 the outbreak was mostly over. 3 Though accurate estimates of mortality are difficult to make, the recent trend has been to adjust the estimates upwards. This is the result of recent scholarship's focus on the peasant
Geoffrey Plantagenet (and started the Plan'tagenet dynasty in England). It was lost along with Normandy in 1204; ист. провинция Анжу; Henry II Plantagenet. Генрих II Плантагенет. 7. Aquitaine ["xkwI'teIn], an ancient province in south-west France. By the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II in 1152 it became the largest English possession in France. It was held by the English Crown until 1453. ист. провинция Аквитания. 8. Gascony ['gxskqnI], a former province of south-west France, in the northern foothills of the Pyrenees. United with Aquitaine in the 11th c., it was held by England between 1154 and 1453. With the loss of Gascony, the Hundred Years’ War was over. ист. провинция Гасконь. Vocabulary 1. Norman ист. Норманн; нормандский Norseman ист
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