Describes the illnesses, plagues, diagnoses, and treatments during the Middle Ages.

The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of

Learn the history of medieval disease and how medical treatments were worse than the disease.

This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in diffe

An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.