Herstory
The modern world began to take shape in the sixteenth century—a period that historians often refer to as the early modern era. During these transformative years, the institutions of family, economy, and state evolved into forms that would define Western civilization until the end of the Second World War.
Herstory
Throughout the medieval period, the control of property and economic rights was a key battleground for women
Medieval 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
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
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
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
When the Black Death arrived on the European mainland, it did so at a historical crossroads
Medieval Europe
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