The Black Death: The Plague That Killed Half of Europe
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The Black Death: The Plague That Killed Half of Europe
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You could share a meal with a healthy friend at noon and be digging their grave by nightfall. Between thirteen forty-seven and thirteen fifty-one, the Black Death swept across Europe and killed perhaps half its people — the single deadliest catastrophe in human history.
This episode traces the plague from the trade routes of Asia to the harbours of Italy: how it spread, the three terrible forms it took, the scapegoating and flagellants and mass graves it left behind — and the myths we still get wrong, from the plague-doctor mask to "Ring a Ring o' Roses." Then the strangest twist of all: how the greatest dying in history quietly remade the world that survived it.
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