Episode 2: Plague
Ask a Medievalist
English - April 23, 2020 20:09 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 1: An Introduction to the Middle Ages
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“Death and famine stalk the land like two great stalking things.” — Blackadder Summary It’s the Black Death, the original plague! Em and Jesse discuss the outbreaks of plague that bookended the Middle Ages–the Plague of Justinian (around 540 CE) and the better-known outbreak that spread across Asia into Western Europe and eventually hit the …