[Fiji Hill]

At the time it was raging through Europe, the bubonic plague was not called the Black Death but the pestilence. “Black Death” is one of those terms that was coined afterwards—like Renaissance (coined by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt in the nineteenth century), Industrial Revolution (coined in the twentieth century) and Roaring Twenties (coined in 1939).

[Starboard]

Coined in hindsight. Fascinating info.

Thanks for sharing.