From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that ...
Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. The plague that struck Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century wiped out nearly twenty million people. But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor ...
COVID 19 was not the first, nor will it be the last. The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of ...
Human remains from the plague pits in London were used in the genetic analysis. The devastation of the plague pandemic left such an incredible genetic mark on humanity that it's still affecting ...
No matter where you look up the meaning of the word “plague”, it’s never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means “to cause continual distress”, yet as a noun ...
Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...
In 2022 I was awarded a Fellowship at the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France) to undertake research into forms of socio-ecological resilience during the Marseille plague of 1720-1722. Another recent ...
With coronavirus putting households around the world in lockdown, can the English "plague village" of Eyam, which quarantined itself for more than a year, offer us lessons on how to fight back?
Has ever a game found so many different ways to kill players? A new update for Crusader Kings III has introduced The Black Death and other plague-like illnesses, providing yet another way for your ...
Akyüz, Ahmet Yusuf 2024. Apocalyptic Scenes In Emma Donoghue’s The Pull Of The Stars. Motif Akademi Halk Bilimi Dergisi, ...