The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis. In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became ...

There were no effective cures at the time and it’s thought that around half the population of Europe perished due to the bubonic plague in the 14th century. What’s more, historians are ...

Historically, the disease decimated global populations. In the 14th century, bubonic plague infamously brought the Black ...

The 14th-century global outbreak of bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was the deadliest disease outbreak in recorded history, killing up to half of the European, Asian, and African populations ...

was a mix of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague. It tore through Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 14th century, killing an estimated 200 million people and wiping out 60 per cent of Europe ...

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic ... of plague and cholera that spread through Europe from Egypt and Turkey towards the middle of the 19th century, the first ...

But, the traumatic circumstances of the bubonic plague challenge them. Facing the epidemic and other issues of the 14th century, we mostly watch the group practice their performance with significant ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...

The bubonic plague has cropped up in the US ... it is much less deadly than its notorious past. When 'The Great Plague' struck 17th Century England, one rural community took decisive action ...

The bubonic plague, or Black Death ... The Renaissance: the rebirth of medicine, 14th to 17th century The Renaissance saw the new availability of older wisdom lead to a period of innovation ...

The UK recently experienced a bubonic plague scare due to a mistakenly ... of over 50 million people throughout Europe in the 14th century. To grasp the scale of its devastation, the pandemic ...