Black death

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe

Black Death facts: your guide to “the worst catastrophe in recorded history”

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The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

History quiz: how much do you know about the Black Death? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Julian of Norwich holds her famous book in a sculpture at the doors of Norwich Cathedral. (Photo by Creative Commons Wiki)

Julian of Norwich: Janina Ramirez hails ‘the female Chaucer’

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The Dance of Death

The Black Death and social change . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

Black Death quarantine: how did we try to contain the most deadly disease in history?

Immigrant children are examined by a city health officer upon arrival at the battery from Ellis Island during a Typhus scare, c1911. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

A short history of quarantine

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

Beating the Black Death: did medieval medicine help people to survive? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An introduction to the Black Death

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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?” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A contemporary pictorial depiction of the Great Plague.

The Black Death: the historians’ view . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Top 10 Plantagenet podcasts – from the Black Death to Richard III

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The Black Death and Tudor adventurers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Illustration of couple with bubonic plague

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

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The plague, Sir Walter Ralegh and Jerusalem . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.