This week, with headlines turning once again to stories of the plague, Danièle catches up with Winston Black to talk about The Black Death and COVID-19, what’s different about them, and what we can learn today from looking back on the biggest pandemic in human history.
Winston E. Black’s latest book is Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents, published by Broadview Press. He also just published The Middle Ages: Facts and Fictions through ABC-CLIO. You can see more of his works through his Academia.edu page or follow him on Twitter @WinstonEBlack
This week, with headlines turning once again to stories of the plague, Danièle catches up with Winston Black to talk about The Black Death and COVID-19, what’s different about them, and what we can learn today from looking back on the biggest pandemic in human history.
Winston E. Black’s latest book is Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents, published by Broadview Press. He also just published The Middle Ages: Facts and Fictions through ABC-CLIO. You can see more of his works through his Academia.edu page or follow him on Twitter @WinstonEBlack
See also:
The Coronavirus is not the Black Death
The Medieval Origins of Quarantine
Coping with Pandemics in the Middle Ages
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Top Image: 14th century image of the Black Death in Tournai.
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