The Black Death | Podcast series - HistoryExtra

Introducing a six-part podcast series examining how the Black Death shook the Middle Ages

HistoryExtra podcast editor Ellie Cawthorne presents a brand new history series. Learn from expert historians on how this devastating disease killed millions and transformed societies.

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Episode 1 Introduction . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2 Origins & spread . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3 Living through the plague . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4 Medieval medical thinking . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 5 Death, sin & spirituality . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 6 How the pandemic transformed societies . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe, c1340. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Did Black Death trigger the rise of Europe? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Miniature depicting a couple suffering from the blisters of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that swept Europe in the Middle Ages. From the Swiss manuscript the Toggenburg Bible, 1411. Pigment on vellum. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Turning points 1348: The Black Death . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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