It is even claimed that the Renaissance was a direct result of the Black Death. They say that every cloud has a silver lining. Although in this case, it was a really big black cloud.

The Age of Renaissance- “rebirth”-had arrived. As economic fortunes improved, a vibrant middle class arose in the Continent. The pursuit of leisure and indulgences in luxuries were no longer just the ...

It's a disease we associate with medieval times, when it was known as the "Black Death", but fears are growing that an outbreak of bubonic plague could be the next global pandemic. With that fear ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

The Black Death was one of the deadliest plagues in European history and in the 1300s wiped out an estimated 60 per cent of the continent’s population. It was so cataclysmic that some studies ...

Now, researchers have found genetic evidence that human evolution may have been shaped by the Black Death. Their study, published in the journal Nature, has found evidence of positive selection ...

When the Black Death massacred up to 50 percent of the European population in the mid-14th century, it appears to have etched an enduring mark on human genetics, altering the frequency of genes ...