The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research

In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, celebrated medievalist Dorsey Armstrong corrects explanations of the medieval pandemic that are now known to be inaccurate and offers a more robust description of plague biology.

COVID-19 isn’t likely to be humanity’s last experience with a zoonotic disease, so what can we learn now from these two pandemics that could help us in the future?

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