Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how ...

A Medieval illustration of people suffering from swollen lymph nodes, a sign of bubonic plague. The plague had no cure and once a person had caught it, there was very little the doctors could do ...

Bites from infected fleas are the main way people contract bubonic plague, the form of the illness that killed people during the medieval Black Death. So Seersholm and his colleagues set out to ...

John the Evangelist in 2010 The stories of "ordinary folk" before and after the Black Death have been revealed through studying bones found in medieval cemeteries. Archaeologists investigated the ...

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...

A specialist in the social history of religion and religious movements in the European Middle Ages, Professor Little has written several books; some of his principal publications are listed below. He ...

Archaeologists used DNA to prove at least three bodies which had been carefully buried at an Augustinian friary in Cambridge died from plague The traumatic death toll of the Black Death did not ...

This plague case, like others that appear rarely but with some regularity, is the same disease that was responsible for the medieval "Black Death." Plague continues to be a serious and potentially ...