The bubonic plague most definitely left its mark on medieval Europe. ... The streets of the afflicted towns were often littered with the bodies of the dead, and since the townspeople wanted nothing to do with the sick there was nobody to bury the bodies; and so some of the bodies were buried in mass graves, which is one of the only times rich and poor alike were buried along side one another. ... All in all in bubonic plague, or Black Death was a mysterious disease that struck medieval Europe with massive force. ...

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In The Decameron, Boccaccio places us in a time when the plague was running rampant within the medieval realm. ... Soon after, the seven women and three men quickly find themselves leaving town with only with an agenda to "pursue whatever pleasures and entertainments the present times would afford while shunning at all costs the lewd practices of their fellow citizens (16-17)." ...

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