The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346–1353) on European
populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by …

Objective To identify the major health problems of the Middle Ages. Bubonic plague is often
considered the greatest health disaster in medieval history, but this has never been …

This paper has several aims: to determine if Yersinia pestis was the causative agent in the
last Scottish plague outbreak in the mid-17th century; map the geographic spread of the …

The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346-53) on European
populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by …

This research explores how the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in a medieval hospital was
affected by the demographic and social changes that following the Black Death (1346–1353 …

Although dozens of ancient Yersinia pestis genomes and a vast corpus of documentary data
are available, the origin and spread of consecutive outbreaks of the Second Plague …

This Element volume focuses on how archaeologists construct narratives of past people and
environments from the complex and fragmented archaeological record. In keeping with its …

China: Evidence from Chinese Medical Writings,” brings The Medieval Globe back to its
roots eight years ago. In 2014, Hymes presented his initial thoughts on how the …

Kutná Hora entered the 14th century as a rich, prosperous, and densely-populated city
producing tons of silver. Such an amount of precious metal could not be mined and …

GIRDLE BUCKLES ASSOCIATED with several groups of burials at the later-medieval
Augustinian friary in Cambridge indicate that clothed burial was common, with a much …