The haunting journal of Agnolo di Tura reveals the horrors of the Black Plague. During the Black Plague, death came so fast that proper Christian burials became impossible. In Siena, mass graves ...

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

Ancient gravestones in Kyrgyzstan hint the Black Death began long before it reached Europe. A spike in gravestones from 1338 in Kyrgyzstan led historian Philip Slavin to theorize that the Black Death ...

I've been caring for patients of this horrible plague these last few months. Many other doctors have fled the city for fear of catching the disease, but it seems it is everywhere. A French doctor, Guy ...

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 ...

Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what triggered the deadly plague that wiped out over half the medieval population of Europe. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz ...