The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great ...

The plague that struck Europe in the middle of ... Franciscan friars were preaching that the pestilence was God’s punishment wrought upon sinful people. The astrologers had their own take ...

The author is interested in Galenic pathocoenosis, that of doctor Galen and his Emperor Marcus Aurelius (IInd cent. A.D.), when a new 'pestilence' or 'plague' (smallpox?) devastated the whole empire, ...

Plague is primarily a rodent disease which ... But when a scribe reports 'pestilence' and an infestation of fleas in his ...

As a chronicler from a plague-ridden Florentine recorded ... but none of equal gravity to that of September 1348, when the pestilence was rushing toward London inland from Bristol and Oxford ...

the Ten Plagues are the most well known. As noted in the book of Exodus, these were blood, frogs, lice, fleas, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the death of a first-born child.

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient ... inscriptions memorializing the persons and their cause of death—pestilence. This made ...

At the time of the epidemic, most people would have called the disease 'the pestilence' or 'the Great Mortality'. The term 'Black Death' specifically refers to the outbreak of the plague disease ...

It’s exactly 387 years since the worst plague Worcester has ever suffered came to an end. By April 1638 officially around ...