Townspeople respond to this event by throwing the child of a prostitute into a well as a sacrificeto Hel in the novel The Cross, whose protagonist Kristin Lavransdatter joins an abbey during it.
Townspeople respond to this event by throwing the child of a prostitute into a well as a sacrificeto Hel in the novel The Cross, whose protagonist Kristin Lavransdatter joins an abbey during it.Such details as the placement of a severed head in a pot of basil suggest that the love betweenLorenzo and Lisabetta is a metaphor for this event. One author claimed that many women becameless chaste due to the necessity of using male servants during this event in the introduction to acollection about Dioneo, (*) Filostrato, and Fiammetta, who flee from Florence to escape it and spend twoweeks telling stories. For 10 points, name this historical event that shaped the frame story of theDecameron and wiped out half the population of Medieval Europe.
Townspeople respond to this event by throwing the child of a prostitute into a well as a sacrificeto Hel in the novel The Cross, whose protagonist Kristin Lavransdatter joins an abbey during it.
the Black Death [or the Black Plague; prompt on "the Plague" or "the Bubonic Plague" or " Yersinia Pestis"]