Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

In this article, we’ll talk about the plagues, or pandemics, that humans have battled with throughout history. The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have killed up to 200 ...

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An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. “That September, one imagines scenes of high drama at Westminster Palace,” Kelly continues, “Edward III and ...

Benedictow, Ole J. 2004. The Black Death 1346–1353: The Complete History. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. Benedictow, Ole J. 2010. What Disease was Plague? On the Controversy over the Microbiological ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.

The book brings together not just a description of these diseases and how they have affected our history and behavior, but also narrates the search for the causative agents, explaining how they ...

Manetho sought to associate Jews with the silent spread of the dreaded plague, as invisible as it is unstoppable. Manetho’s ethnocentric, sour-grapes reading of Jewish history might have had ...

but these were opposed by local politicians whose constituents did not want to risk a spread of the plague in their locality. Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history ...