Here are four myths about the medieval world it’s time ... people of African ancestry, and people with dual white European and black African heritage. Nor were queer people absent from Middle ...

But the clearest evidence that people were healthier after the Black Death than they were before it comes in the bodies themselves. DeWitte looked at skeletal samples taken from medieval ...

During that medieval era, Cambridge was home to a few thousand people. The bubonic plague — known as the Black Death — came ... affected populations across Europe. “Everyday diseases ...

Medieval Europe was at the mercy of many infectious ... the host rarely lives long enough to infect many people. Most evidence points to the Black Death being the main bubonic strain of plague ...

History, however, shows that withholding health care does not make transgender people go away. Scholarship of medieval literature ... was the surgery capital of Europe at the time.

Our Medieval ancestors ... on our immune systems. The Black Death in the 14th century was the single deadliest event in recorded history, spreading throughout Europe, the Middle East and northern ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...