In recent years, research has shown that the terrifying Yersinia pestis, which took out half of Europe in three terrible waves, existed well before the 1300s. First striking then, the Black Death ...

A study of epidemic disease and its effects in medieval and early modern Europe. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is ...

Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National, local, and even neighborhood newspapers jump on the story. But weirdly ...

The term 'Black Death' specifically refers to the outbreak of the plague disease in the mid-1300s. Later outbreaks, like the one in London in 1665, have been referred to as 'the Plague'.