black death

Looks at the Black Death and why some individuals managed to survive it while others were dying all around them. Also paints a portrait of life at the height of an epidemic, uncovers previously unknown elements of the Black Death, and reveals its mysterious link to HIV immunity in today's population.

Looks at various aspects of medicine as it was practiced in the Middle Ages, and includes discussion of the Black Death.

Presents an introduction to the black death of the Dark Ages, exploring the history of the bubonic plague, which claimed the lives of twenty-five million people in Europe during a five-year period in the fourteenth century, and looks at its origins and how it spread.

Relive the dark horror of black death, a terrifying plague and the greatest catastrophe of the midieval time, that killed 14 million people in Europe.

Hypochondriacs can now fret appropriately and factually with this pocket guide to forty-five disgusting, horrible diseases.

Chronicles the plague that swept through central Asia from 1347 to 1350, describing how the disease was spread and how it ultimately benefited the poor who survived.

An account of the Black Death, or bubonic plague, which spread from the Mongol Empire throughout Europe in the 1300's and the changes it brought about in medieval society.