COVID-19 and the Black Death: Nutrition, frailty, inequity, and mortality by Katherine D. VAN SCHAIK, Sharon N. DeWITTE

“…Methods: A comparative review examining relationships between frailty and mortality during the fourte- enth century Black Death and the current COVID-19 pandemic was conducted. …”
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Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

“…Did the Black Death, the famous, devastating plague pandemic that struck the Mediterranean and Western Europe in the mid-14th century and seeded new strains of the pathogen, Yersinia pestis, in new locales, also reach Sub-Saharan Africa? …”
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Du lexique aux talismans : occurrences de la peste dans la Corne de l’Afrique du XIIIe au XVe siècle by Marie-Laure Derat

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Recognizing plague epidemics in the archaeological record of West Africa by Daphne E. Gallagher, Stephen A. Dueppen

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Entre peste et famine : caractérisation d’une crise de mortalité par l’étude de trois sépultures multiples du site de Kutná Hora – Sedlec (République tchèque, XIVe siècle)... by Auxane de Lépinau, Dominique Castex, Hana Brzobohatá, Jan Frolík, Filip Velímský, Jaroslav Brůžek, Petr Velemínský, Sacha Kacki

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Anthropological view of plague epidemics in the his­torical past by T.F. Khaydarov, D.A. Dolbin

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Was there really a siege of Kaffa by the Mongols in 1346 the first biological war? And what was the aftermath? by Christensen Carsten Sander

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Prendre soin du détenu, surveiller l’enfermement. Les Compagnies de la Miséricorde dans l’espace belge de l’Ancien Régime aux Révolutions (1600-1830) by Xavier Rousseaux

“…Born out of concern for the accompaniment of the dying during the great epidemic of the Black Death, some specialised in accompanying prisoners to the final torture. …”
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The epidemic of Justinian (AD 542): a prelude to the Middle Ages by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…It is estimated that about one third of the population died — a figure comparable to the death rate during the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Famine and inflation, the depopulation of the countryside, and a critical manpower shortage in the army were further effects which all contributed to bringing to a premature end Justinian’s attempt to restore the grandeur of the Roman empire, and precipitating the advent of the Middle Ages. …”
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Pilgrims Speaking Angry Words: Change and Anger in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by Huriye Reis

“…Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written against a background of tremendous change generated by political and religious conflict, the Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt, acknowledges anger as an essential element of medieval culture although it does not give much space to the causes of it. …”
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"Þat Ʒet þe wynd & þe weder & þe worlde stynkes": The Sins of Richard II and the Corruption of the Crown by Shawn Mcavoy

“…Many writings from late-fourteenth century England reflect a popular conception that English society had deteriorated into serious dysfunction, which included the Hundred Years’ War, recurrent outbreaks of the Black Death, and ongoing tensions between the King and Parliament, among other matters. …”
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Reflections on plague in African history (14th–19th c.) by Gérard Chouin

“…Although the plague is commonly described as a pandemic, historical knowledge about the initial Black Death and the many recurrent waves of the disease is largely restricted to Western Europe and the Mediterranean world, where the literate elite left an impressive documentary record that served as resource to the long-lasting and flourishing heuristic tradition of Plague Studies. …”
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