A remarkable discovery in a Swedish bog revealed the well-preserved remains of a medieval man who had been dead for centuries ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...

Historian Megan Coles reveals the bizarre medieval deaths caused by cesspits, assassins, wine barrels and even uncontrollable laughter.

So large was the death toll and so great was the danger of contagion that funerary customs were disrupted. People fled cities. All this was true of covid-19. It was also true of the Black Death. As ...

“Death and the Miser” is a 1561 painting from Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a classical deathbed scene, with the figure of death creeping into a room from a side-door to take the life of the ...

The majority of homicides catalogued on the map occurred in public places, including crowded streets and markets Violence Research Centre/University of Cambridge It was the priest in Dunstan Parish ...