The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research

Dorsey Armstrong debunks numerous popular assumptions about the medieval pandemic.

Dorsey Armstrong corrects the inaccuracies in the historical account of the medieval pandemic.

Medieval peoples suffered from the unpredictability of the pandemic as it exploded in some seasons and locations, died down, and then showed up again years later. Explore what we have recently learned about transmission of the four types of plague-bubonic, pneumonic, septicemic, and digestive-and how that affected the timing and intensity of outbreaks.

Dorsey Armstrong corrects the inaccuracies in the historical account of the medieval pandemic.

Dorsey Armstrong corrects the inaccuracies in the historical account of the medieval pandemic.

Dorsey Armstrong corrects the inaccuracies in the historical account of the medieval pandemic.