Rats, fleas, and a city unprepared—when the plague struck London in 1665, it killed one in five residents in less than a year.

The Cloisters Collection, 1925, Metropolitan Museum of Art // Public Domain One ... dubbed the plague of 1347–51 the “Black Death”—a suitably terrifying name that stuck.

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...

The Black Death was a pandemic caused by bubonic plague that killed 75–200 million worldwide between 1347 to 1351. The team of researchers believes the Black Death first originated in northern ...

It captures the horror of the bubonic plague, which devastated Italy during the Black Death and then repeatedly returned over the next 300 years.Credit...National Gallery of Art When the Black ...

The Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak, killed half of medieval Europe’s population in the space of seven years in the 14th century, shifting the course of human history.

pestis epidemic — the first was the Plague of Justinian in the sixth century, said Mary Fissell, a medical historian at Johns Hopkins University. But the Black Death is the best known and is ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

The Black Death was a serious ... Others think that pneumonic plague was most serious because of the way it spread rapidly from human to human. In either case, death usually happened within ...