While “social distancing” and “self-quarantine” were previously unfamiliar concepts for many of us, they are hardly new. Even people who lived before the discovery of microbes believed such actions ...

The plague killed between a third and half of the European population in the mid-14th Century. But it's unknown what ...

Journal of Social History, Vol. 45, No. 3, The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States (Spring 2012), pp. 809-834 (26 pages) The outbreak of bubonic plague that struck London and Westminster ...

The infection rate of plague in the 1300s — when it first emerged in Europe — doubled roughly every 43 days. But the 17th century, the number of new infections doubled every 11 days. (CN) — A study ...

A goose flies through the Canary Wharf area of London on Thursday. The coronavirus is reminiscent of the bubonic plague's toll on the city in 1665. (Victoria Jones/AP) Perspective by Mary E. Fissell ...

As our lives are swallowed up by COVID-19 reports, I keep thinking of Eyam. Eyam is a cozy, picturesque village in the Peak District of northwestern England, with a population of 926. It is a cluster ...

'Plague sceptics' are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th to 8th centuries CE, argues a new study based on ancient texts and recent genetic discoveries.