Medieval health disasters, Plague pandemics
2 episodes
Episodes in this category also belong to the following categories:
The Black Death
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Black Death and the way medieval communities responded to it.
22 May 2008
Featuring: Miri Rubin, Samuel Cohn, Paul Binski
The Plague of Justinian
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the outbreak of plague in 541AD in Byzantium that was said, at the time, to have blighted the lives of all mankind.
21 January 2021
Featuring: John Haldon, Rebecca Flemming, Greg Woolf