Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

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While I’ve greatly enjoyed studying the Middle Ages, I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live through them. We’re about to do something unprecedented among developed countries, which is to reject the ...

or the Black Death, in the 14th century. However, studies suggest that it was not the rats themselves that spread the plague but rather the fleas they carried. The plague was responsible for causing ...

Released a year before Game of Thrones originally aired, Sean Bean nevertheless remains the spitting image of Ned Stark as he ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

Black Death, the 2010 horror action film directed by Christopher Smith, is set to drop on Max on April 1, and it includes not one but two former stars from Westeros. Set at the height of the ...