The plague arrived in Europe in the 1300s when trading ships filled with sickened sailors docked in Messina on Sicily, History.com said. Some people thought the Black Death, which could kill a ...

Plague has killed tens of millions of people around the world in three major pandemics, with about a third of Europe’s population wiped out in the 1300s by bubonic plague, known as the Black Death.

The plague’s deadliest outbreak was in the 1300s – but is it gone for good? In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian Host, Eric Schulze, explains what causes the plague and what we are ...

A study of epidemic disease and its effects in medieval and early modern Europe. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is ...