Did Mass Cat Killings Help Spread the Black Death in the Middle Ages? The idea originated with a 13th-century pope who accused devil-worshippers of kissing cats' hindquarters.

The Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million lives. As the disease spread, entire towns and villages were wiped out ...

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 squalid disease that killed within a week' and a national trauma that utterly transformed Britain. Dr Mike Ibeji follows its deadly path. The first outbreak of plague swept ...

Revealed: How mass tourism helped England after the Black Death. Finds from “England’s Venice” reveal the secrets of medieval pilgrimage ...

Turmoil, crisis and the creation of a state, from Magna Carta to the horrors of the Black Death. Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning ...

LONDON Several teams of scientists around the world have, for some time, been studying the possibility that a genetic mutation perpetuated by the organism responsible for bubonic plague, or the Black ...

The Black Death also devastated the Middle East, reaching Antioch in 1348-49, Mecca and Mosul in 1349, and Yemen in 1351. It then hung around until the 17th Century, with the Great Plague of 1665 ...

Not just the Black Death. Let's be clear. Many bad things did happen in the Middle Ages. The Black Death bubonic plague of the mid-1300s killed millions. There were brutal conflicts and wars.

There is evidence that Europeans killed cats during the Middle Ages, but none of that evidence suggests that mass killings of cats happened. One archaeological analysis titled “ Killing Cats in the ...