The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...

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

New research has found that the plague may actually have caused milder outbreaks in the Middle East a century before it ...

A prolonged and widespread human outbreak of plague, a pandemic like the Black Death and the hundreds of ... strains of Yersinia pestis that reached Europe in the fourteenth century are most ...

The Black Death is a disease I am sure most of us have heard of, with its bursting pustules, rats, and overwhelming death ...

The analysis of the periods in which the testimonies were recorded indicates that the great majority of the analyzed century ...

The Black Death (1347-51) devastated European society. Writing four decades after the event, the English monk and chronicler, Thomas Walsingham, remarked that “so much wretchedness followed ...

When the Black Death ravaged Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, the soldiers of Scotland saw opportunity in crisis. First hitting England in 1348, the plague’s deadly spread across the country..