The Black Death swept across Europe in the 14th century, killing an estimated one-third of the population. Spread primarily ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...

So large was the death toll and so great was the danger of contagion that funerary customs were disrupted. People fled cities. All this was true of covid-19. It was also true of the Black Death. As ...

The Black Death devastated Europe in the 14th century, killing tens of millions and reshaping society. With no understanding ...

Written with great sensitivity to the “considerable psychological burden that unimaginable loss and the constant threat of ...

A spike in gravestones from 1338 in Kyrgyzstan led historian Philip Slavin to theorize that the Black Death may have begun years before it swept through Europe. Inscriptions mentioning “pestilence” ...

In 1347, ships reached Sicily with the Black Death. In a year, it spread across Europe to England. In 1347, ships from the Black Sea arrived in Sicily carrying an unseen killer. Rats and fleas aboard ...