

Explore the history behind the bubonic plague that left Europe reeling from one of the greatest losses in history The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia, the plague...


Pocket-guide to one of the most significant and catastrophic events in medieval history, which, in England alone, reduced the population from nearly six million to just over three million. Concise and well-informed, the book traces the origins of the disease and follows its terrible...