Medieval Europe
The Triumph of Death: The Plague in the Rest of Europe
The final years of the first wave of the Black Death took it far from the shores of France and Italy into Scandinavia, Russia, and remote outposts of the Atlantic.
Medieval Europe
The Pestilence Tyme: The Black Death in England
By 1350, the initial wave of the Black Death had largely burned through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, leaving widespread emptiness and mourning in its wake
Medieval Europe
Satan Triumphant: The Black Death in Germany
The Black Death’s onslaught across fourteenth-century Europe struck with particular ferocity in Germany, leaving social, religious, and political turmoil in its wake. Arriving around June 1348, the plague spread from three directions—eastward from France, northward from Italy, and outward from the Balkans—hitting Bavaria first, and then rolling
Medieval Europe
The Black Death in France: Crosses on the Doors and a Kingdom in Crisis
From Marseilles to Bordeaux, Avignon to Paris, every corner of France in 1348–1349 bore witness to a catastrophe unlike anything known in living memory.
Medieval Europe
Europe’s Precarious Rise and the Onslaught of the Black Death
When the Black Death arrived on the European mainland, it did so at a historical crossroads
Medieval Europe
The Arrival of the Black Death in Europe: A Historical Overview
The Black Death’s sudden eruption in Messina in 1347 was just one step on a vast journey that began years earlier, most likely in Central Asia