European writers contemporary with the plague described the disease in Latin as pestis or pestilentia, 'pestilence'; … See more

Research from 2017 suggests plague first infected humans in Europe and Asia in the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age. Research in 2018 found evidence of Yersinia pestis in an ancient Swedish tomb, which may have been assoc… See more

A report by the Medical Faculty of Paris stated that a conjunction of planets had caused "a great pestilence in the air" (miasma theory). Muslim religious scholars taught that the pandemic was a "martyrdom and mercy… See more

The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the 14th to 17th centuries. According to Jean-Noël Biraben, the plague was present somewhere in Europe in every year between 13… See more

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1. ^ Declining temperatures following the end of the Medieval Warm Period added to the crisis.
2. ^ He was able to adopt the epidemiology of the bubonic plague for the Black Death for the second edition in 1908, implicating … See more

• Alfano V, Sgobbi M (January 2022). "A fame, peste et bello libera nos Domine: An Analysis of the Black Death in Chioggia in 1630". Journal of Family History. 47 (1): 24–40. doi:10.1177/03631990211000615. S2CID… See more