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Ugolino di Conti's birth year is suggested as somewhere between 1145 and 1170, but there are suggestions that he was in his 90s at his d...

One of the major events during the reign of Pope Clement VI  (1291 – 6 December 1352) was not of his making. He had been pope for four years...

The Bubonic Plague , also called the "Black Death," first hit the European Middle Ages primarily in 1348-1351, but that wasn't...

The Bubonic Plague's first appearance in medieval Europe from 1348-1351, and it was terrifying. At least one-quarter to one-third of the...

Gentile da Foligno was a physician who learned his art at Padua and Bologna and then became a teacher—quite a wealthy one, as it happens. At...

The Roman Colosseum was begun under Emperor Vespasian in 72 CE and finished in 80 by his son, Emperor Titus. Stories of its use as a gladiat...

The Plague, also called the Black Death, spread across Sicily shortly after the arrival of a fleet of a dozen Genoese galleys bringing go...

The much-disputed Crimean Peninsula On the north coast of the Black Sea, a peninsula extends from the southern part of Ukraine. If you l...

The climax of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 On the heels of the recent news article about how victims of the Bubonic Plague still exi...

After the first catastrophic outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in 1348-50, Europe continued to suffer about every decade. The Plague returned...

The history of medicine includes many brave and progressive thinkers who were not willing to follow the herd or be content with what was alr...

"Free"dom isn't "free" Before discussing the first "Occupy" movement--the Peasants' Revolt of 1381--...

Friar Clynn looks beyond the present Friar Clynn was a Franciscan living in Kilkenny in western Ireland at the time of the Bubonic Plague....

Hype aside, what do we know? The Middle Ages called what was happening "The Great Pestilence." The "Black Death" was...

A timeline for the Bubonic Plague (An incomplete list of) Breakouts of the Bubonic Plague: 540 C.E. -- Breaks out in Egypt and reaches C...