The Black Death, caused by the spread of the yersinia pestis bacteria by rats, was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-1300s, when it's estimated to have killed up to two ...

The term 'Black Death' specifically refers to the outbreak of the plague disease in the mid-1300s. Later outbreaks, like the one in London in 1665, have been referred to as 'the Plague'.

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 ...

Imagine waking up in Rome 2,000 years ago, on the Nile in ancient Egypt or on the streets of London during the Black Death in the 1300s - complete with realistic sights, sounds and daily struggles.