. Beginning in late 1347, most of western Europe was attacked by a pandemic that overshadows both the earlier outbreaks in 6th- and 7th-century eastern Gaul and the recurrent epidemics from the 14th through the 16th centuries. The plague later acquired...

In the fall of 1347 a small fleet of Genoese trading ships arrived at the docks of Messina, Sicily. The ships had traveled from Kaffa, a port on the northern reaches of the Black Sea. Since leaving Kaffa, their crews had been struggling against a...

Death was a habitual visitor to fourteenthcentury Europe. Never before had humanity seen such widespread dying. Famines, wars, and a host of deadly diseases all took millions of lives during the 1300s. But the worst single calamity to wrack this...

The pandemic of bubonic plague that swept across Europe between 1347 and 1353 is known today as the Black Death, though contemporaries called it the "Great Pestilence," and the disease itself was generally known as peste. During these...

The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis.[1] It probably began in Central Asia[2] and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The...

The Black Death Best in Show Steven Parrino Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Avenue Through November 3 Here are Eros and Thanatos to beat the band-large, black-enameled canvases that have been painted while tautly stretched, then wrenched off and...

Hollway, Karla FC Passed On: African American Morning Stories, A Memorial. Duke University Press, 2002. Pouissant, Alvin F., M.D., and Amy Alexander. Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and The Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans. Beacon Press, 2000. Why these two seemingly...

A capuchin monkey at the Denver Zoo has died of plague and officials are trying to prevent an epidemic by isolating the primates and treating them with antibiotics.Zoo officials learned late Friday that the 8-year-old animal that died Wednesday tested positive for the flea-borne disease,...

A capuchin monkey at the Denver Zoo has died of plague and officials are trying to prevent an epidemic by isolating the primates and treating them with antibiotics.Zoo officials learned late Friday that the 8-year-old animal that died Wednesday tested positive for the flea-borne disease,...

Describes the political, economic, religious, social, intellectual and aesthetic effects of the Black Death, and how the event led to pluralism.

Facts about the Middle Ages' Great Plague, which killed millions in Europe, especially how it affected England. The plauge was spread by rats before a cure was found. The plague still exists today.

Essay describes the black death that killed one third of the European population in the 1400s and the aftermath it created.