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To see what pollen had to say about the Black Death, Dr. Izdebski and his colleagues picked out 261 sites across Europe — from Ireland and Spain in the west to Greece and Lithuania in the east ...

The Black Death, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, wiped out 30 to 50 percent of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351. But, this is just the most infamous of the little microbe's ...

History Dept. What the 14th Century Plague Tells Us About How Covid Will Change Politics Regions hit hardest by the Black Death in Europe looked more democratic centuries later.

The Black Death was the name given to the bubonic plague that hit Europe in the late 1340s. Somewhere between a third and a half of Europe’s population died from the disease.

The Black Death—the world's second bubonic plague pandemic—decimated the populations of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in the 14th century. But there was a silver lining.

Yet when an editor at the Free Press called in the summer of 1997, asking whether I would consider doing a book on the Black Death, which swept through Europe in the 14th century, I had my doubts.

Did the Black Death break out in North Africa before Europe? Vague apparitions of the disease have surfaced in Ancient Egypt, most notably in a 3,500-year-old medical text, which describes the ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. The deveastating pandemic wiped out up to half of the populations of Europe, Western Asia and Africa, killing tens ...

The Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak, killed half of medieval Europe’s population in the space of seven years in the 14th century, shifting the course of human history.