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A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos ...

Rats? Children? The Mongols? The Black Death swept across the world with terrifying speed, but who (or what) was really to blame? Louise Quick, with the help of the public and medieval historians Dr ...

Developer 1M Bits Horde and Meta Publishing (who also published Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous) are announcing Nested Lands, a new medieval-set, "brutally challenging" multiplayer survival RPG in ...

This paper examines one of the most popular remedies in medieval plague medicine, namely theriac, and explores possible reasons for its remarkable continuity in the late medieval and early modern ...

When people think of Medieval diseases, hysterical dancing is not usually what first comes to mind. Yet in 14th and 15th century Germany, dozens of ordinary people claimed to be infected by the ...

"These essays were originally delivered as papers at a conference held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL in 2006" -- p. vii. Introduction / Vivian Nutton -- Universal and ...