The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge — portrait of a medieval killer
A gripping and authoritative global history of the plague that killed more than 100mn people in the 14th century
A gripping and authoritative global history of the plague that killed more than 100mn people in the 14th century

Empires beware — when nature goes rogue, the political consequences can be devastating

A new book offers a different account of the pestilence

Aleksander Pluskowski on how the Catholic knights in Europe brought law and order to the pagan world and became a model for Nazi…

A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the horror

There is a crypto parallel in the aftermath of Europe’s 14th century bubonic plague

An exhaustive investigation by ‘Empire of Pain’ author Patrick Radden Keefe looks into the death of Zac Brettler and the murky…