Pandemics

Doctor treating a patient, from a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Elma Brenner on medieval wellbeing: “People in the Middle Ages were absolutely focused on staying healthy”

Doctor treating a patient, from a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Medieval medicine

A medieval monk praying in front of a table of apothacary's herbs

Beating the Black Death: did medieval medicine help people to survive?

Virus H1N1

Could flu really kill thousands again?

Peasants in the Middle Ages at a cattle market. Cows appear to have been difficult to manage in the medieval period, and caused several deaths. (Photo by INTERFOTO /Alamy)

5 strange causes of death in the medieval period

Paul Morland. (Photo by Frank Monks)

Books interview with Paul Morland: “Even the Spanish flu pandemic wasn’t enough to stop population growth”

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Video: An introduction to the Black Death

A 14th-century Flemish illustration depicting the burying of plague victims in coffins in Tournai in 1349. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Black Death: “Oh father, why have you abandoned me?”

A contemporary pictorial depiction of the Great Plague.

The Black Death: the historians’ view

Podcast Website large Katherine Arnold

The Spanish Flu pandemic

A fresco depicting St Nicholas receiving the sick. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Post-Black Death: a ‘golden age’ for medieval women?

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The Black Death and Tudor adventurers

The Black Death, the effects of which are pictured in this medieval miniature, took little more than seven years to wipe out around half of mankind. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death

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General prehistory

Introduction of farming led to ‘Black Death’-type population collapse

Illustration of couple with bubonic plague

Where the Black Death happened: 9 places connected to the plague