Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what triggered the deadly plague that wiped out over half the medieval population of Europe. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz ...

In the immediate aftermath of the 14th-century Black Death, a highly educated Venetian wrote a chronicle claiming that the plague had wiped out a third of his city’s population. “Truly, the world ...

The Black Death may have killed more than half of Europe's population within just a few years. Trionfo della Morte, attributed to Buonamico Buffalmacco, photographed in Pisa by Martin Bauch An ...

The Black Death ravaged medieval Western Europe, ultimately wiping out roughly one-third of the population. Scientists have identified the bacterium responsible and its likely origins, but certain ...

In our research in the British Library’s medieval collections, we have identified a previously unnoticed document that provides fresh insights into the survivors of the outbreak of plague known as the ...

For those who lived through it, the era of the Black Death must have been a “living nightmare”, said Katherine Harvey in The Times. During its first wave, between 1347 and 1353, the disease typically ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...