Witness the dark tale of Caffa in 1347, where war, plague, and biological warfare intersected to spark the Black Death. Discover how a single event led to Europe's deadliest pandemic.

New research suggests that plague was present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. A new study ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

Between 1346 and 1353, the plague destroyed a higher proportion of the population than any other single known event. "The living were scarcely sufficient to bury the dead," said History Extra.

"La peste bubonique à Hong Kong." Annales de l'Institut Pasteur 8: 662–67. Benedictow, Ole J. 2004. The Black Death 1346–1353: The Complete History. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. Benedictow, Ole J.

But as late as 1401, a half-century after the Black Death, Jews in Freiburg were accused of “poisoning the air.” So yeah. In terms of Jewish history, it’s not always about the virus itself.

What caused the Plague? And what methods did people use to combat the spread? Learn about its origins, past outbreaks (including the Black Death), and the long-lasting impact of its legacy today.

COVID 19 was not the first, nor will it be the last. The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of ...

Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.

The paper is published in the journal Medical History. In a previous study they showed how multiple contemporary observers were suggesting the new presence of a plague-like disease in western Asia ...