Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

There were further Black Death cases throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. There was another significant outbreak in 1665, particularly affecting London. This outbreak shows there had been no ...

Surgeon General George M. Sternberg in the January Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for ...

A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, which challenge long-standing views on the impact of the Black Death and ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

who is developing a new approach to understanding wages in the Middle Ages. What happens to a country’s economy when half its population dies within a few years? The Black Death did exactly this to ...