plague years
Time of pestilence
Plague years refers to periods when epidemic disease devastated a population, most often the bubonic plague outbreaks that swept through Europe.
The term evokes historical catastrophe—mass death, social collapse, quarantine.
It extends to any era defined by widespread illness: The COVID plague years changed how we work.
Writers use it to frame difficult periods as historically significant trials.
- pestilenceFatal epidemic disease
- Black DeathMedieval bubonic plague pandemic
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- bubonicOf groin-node swellings
quarantine · death · bring out your dead · death toll · suffering · boils · fever · rats · fleas · miasma · corpses · mass graves · burial pits · isolation · devastation · medieval · London · 1665
- epidemicsepidemic, pandemic, outbreak, disease, Black Death
- classical physicsNewton, Newton's laws, Newtonian physics, laws of motion, force
- Shakespeare biographyStratford, Anne Hathaway, Globe Theatre, birthplace, marriage
- SienaBaptistery, St. Catherine, burnt sienna, raw sienna, panforte
plague yearsgolden age
Period of peak prosperity
golden years · halcyon days · belle époque · boom years · golden era
plague yearsgolden age
Period of peak prosperity
good old days · glory days · banner years · wonder years · Pax Romana
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