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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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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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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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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