A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have led to a famine, increased grain imports, and the spread of the Black Death.

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most ...

In the Middle Ages, the Black Death burst onto the scene, with the first historically documented outbreak occurring in 1346 ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

Clues contained in tree rings have identified volcanic activity as the "first domino to fall" in a sequence that led to the ...

The story of the Black Death has always been a mix of science, memory, and myth, but historians now argue that one misread ...

For centuries, the dominant narrative of the Black Death’s spread has followed a familiar arc: a sudden outbreak in China, a ...

A new study in the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies shows that a widely accepted belief about the Black Death’s rapid spread from Central Asia to the Mediterranean is not based on records or ...

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