The finding supports the theory that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa long before it spread as a major pandemic in the Middle Ages. Previously, experts had speculated about the ...

This shift from the warmer early Middle Ages to cooler climates deeply ... leading to three decades of the Black Death, 23 years of famine, and nine years during which locust invasions were ...

In Britain alone, the Black Death wiped out up to half of the population ... Because humans in the Middle Ages had no concept of microbes, we will never find bacteria mentioned in our written ...

Bubonic plague is most commonly associated with the Middle Ages when the Black Death wiped out as many as 200 million people and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351. However ...

There were further Black Death cases throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. There was another significant outbreak in 1665, particularly affecting London. This outbreak shows there had been no ...

or the Black Death, in the Middle Ages - Yersinia pestis - might give people now carrying the mutation increased resistance to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) compared to non-carriers. New ...

Plague is primarily a rodent disease which ... "Because humans in the Middle Ages had no concept of microbes, we will never find bacteria mentioned in our written sources. But when a scribe ...

A specialist in the social history of religion and religious movements in the European Middle Ages, Professor Little has written several books; some of his principal publications are listed below. He ...