Looking at the ways survivors of past pandemics tried to celebrate the triumph of life amid widespread...
Plague
Throughout history, plagues have severely affected human societies. By Christine A. Smith Throughout history, humans have been...
There are three types of plague infection — bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic — and all are caused...
Several possible causes have been advanced for the Black Death. Introduction Theories of the Black Death are...
People broke public health laws during the 17th-century plague in Italy, but there were clergymen who intervened....
Societies and cultures that seem ossified and entrenched were suddenly open to conquest, innovation, and social change....
In medieval times natural phenomena, such as comets and eclipses, were regarded as portents of natural disasters,...
From ancient times different populations have adopted varying strategies to prevent and contain disease. By Dr. Gian...
The impact of the bubonic plague epidemics of the past still echoes across the centuries. Introduction The...
The plague remained endemic for 300 years, returning every so often to cull the population. Introduction In...
Poe’s story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the...
A full reading of Poe’s work. By Edgar Allan Poe (1842) The Masque of the Red Death...
How he chronicled, commemorated, and mourned his many loved ones who succumbed. This article, Petrarch’s Plague: Love,...
With the plague decimating the ranks of laborers, surviving workers rebelled against the crown’s higher taxes and...
The plague swept through Christian Europe and Islamdom at roughly the same time – between 1347 and...
The costumes were meant to combat the contagious miasma. This article, Plague Doctor Costumes, was originally published...
This article, London’s Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665), was...
There was a brief moment in 1381 when a better world struggled to be born, but the...
The Plague ushered in a new understanding which found expression in movements such as the Protestant Reformation...
People reacted with hopeful cures and responses based on religious belief. Introduction The Black Death of 1347-1352...
Since no one knew what caused the disease, no cure was possible, but this did not stop...
We get our English word for poison or toxin form the Greek word toxikon. By Thomas J....
Reports reached London in 1720 and 1721 that the plague had already killed tens of thousands in...
We can now catch tiny pieces of DNA from ancient diseases and look for clues about how...
People felt overwhelmed as it seems as though they believed that what had happened to others elsewhere...
The first definitive outbreak of plague was the Plague of Justinian as recorded by Procopius which killed...
Despite the plague’s high contagiousness and terrifying symptoms, life in Elizabethan England went on. By Lindsey Rachel...
The Greeks treated their city-states like bodies. To protect them from disasters, it was the poor that...
It is a shared affliction, our collective ailment, our common humanity, that gives rise to irrational behavior...
The cause of the plague was unknown until the 19th century CE. Introduction The word ‘plague’, in...