"A historical turning point, as well as a vast human tragedy, the Black Death of 1346-53 is unparalleled in human history," said Ole J. Benedictow at History Today. It would take 200 years before ...
A case of bubonic plague, responsible for the Black Death, has been detected in a human ... disease that killed up to 50 ...
was likely brought to the Middle East close to a hundred years before it caused the mass mortality events from 1346 to 1351 that we know as the Black Death. Some experts had previously believed ...