(Shown with Black Death the Giant Microbe and Yersinia Pestis, the Oriental Shorthair; yes, I am indeed that sick.) I’ve had a fascination with the Black Death, aka Yersinia Pestis, ever since I took several summer courses at a local university as a child. The professor had two main classes; The Middle Ages, which covered everything from Ladyhawke to the Black Death, and Unsolved Mysteries, which covered everything from Jack the Ripper, to the Romanovs, to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. I suppose this says a […]
“One news came straight huddling on another Of death and death and death”
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly
