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What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

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What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

2 weeks ago Curated by John Wysocki

Image: The Dance of Death by John of Kastav (1490) via Wikimedia Commons. Image is available from the National Gallery of Slovenia website...

Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death

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Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death

6 months ago Curated by John Wysocki

Image: Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death reflects the social upheaval and terror that followed the plague in medieval Europe. Image source: Wikimedia...

Pollution & Deforestation in the Medieval World

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Pollution & Deforestation in the Medieval World

1 year ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image: (top) Medieval London, from a manuscript of poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, 15th century. Source: The British Library....

Medieval Skeletons Reveal How the Bubonic Plague Influenced Human DNA

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Medieval Skeletons Reveal How the Bubonic Plague Influenced Human DNA

4 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: An image captured by a scanning electron microscope of Yersinia pestis bacteria, which causes the bubonic plague. IMAGE...

Like COVID-19, the Black Death had its own "truther" movement, too

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Health & Technology

Like COVID-19, the Black Death had its own “truther” movement, too

4 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: 15th-century manuscript illustration of Moses spreading the plague of boils (Historica Graphica Collection / Heritage Images / Getty...

Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death

Pollution & Deforestation in the Medieval World

Medieval Skeletons Reveal How the Bubonic Plague Influenced Human DNA

Like COVID-19, the Black Death had its own “truther” movement, too

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