The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between one-third and two-thirds of the entire population. But it wasn’t all ...

I pray to God every night that we will soon find out what causes this deadly disease. The term 'Black Death' was first used in English in the 1700s. At the time of the epidemic, most people would ...