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France had three times the population of England and was much richer.
I think you mixed up the term Black Death and bubonic plague. Its not plaque. Assuming you meant the bubonic plague, it was not restricted to England. The whole of Europe and central Asia were victims to its merciless ravage. It happened in the fourteenth century.
poor sanitation in crowded European cities
increase in population
Actually, it came from China to India and then down to Europe. Many historians think it came through Italian ports.
Bubonic Plaque
The Amonimalle Chronicle is a collection of stories of events written by an anonymous person during fourteenth-century England. The chronicle highlights events from the lives of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, as well as others. It is one of the ways historians are able to get a picture of fourteenth-century England.
The Bubonic Plague
In the 14th century, it killed about 60% of the European population, an estimated 100-200 million people.
The Bubonic Plague. However, this wasn't the most devastating to Europeans in the 14th century. The Bubonic Plague spawned a new disease, the Black Death, which was the true killer.
15th
The monopoly on cities trading of the fourteenth century did affect the urban life.