In Britain alone, the Black Death wiped out up to half of the ... Because humans in the Middle Ages had no concept of microbes, we will never find bacteria mentioned in our written sources. ' ...

New research suggests that plague was present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. A new study ...

The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and groins of victims, decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages, ...