Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

The setting of Firenze adds to the brutality of the story, highlighting the widespread devastation caused by the Black Plague. Netflix’s The Decameron took place in 14th-century Italy ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or ... three major pandemics—in the 6th century in and around Constantinople, in ...

Plague is no longer the human ... They began in the 6th century and endured until the 8th century. In the 14th century, the Black Death broke out along the Silk Road, the trade route between ...