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The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

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For the sake of simplicity, this article will narrow its scope to Northern Europe during the 14th century, a time when the Black Death ran rampant, the Hundred Years’ War raged, and chivalry was ...

The Black Death was one of the most devastating disease outbreaks in history. The 14th century strain was caused by the yersinia pestis bacteria. The disease is called the Black Death due to body ...

Seventeen percent of Stone Age bodies analyzed in a recent study were found to have died from the Black Death—thousands ... continent's population during the 14th century. Researchers revealed ...

But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence ... major pandemics—in the 6th century in and around Constantinople, in 14th century Europe, and in 19th century ...

They began in the 6th century and endured until the 8th century. In the 14th century, the Black Death broke out along the Silk Road, the trade route between modern China and Europe, killing about ...