The Black Death and COVID-19 

with Winston Black

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 his second appearance on The Medieval Podcast – click here to listen to ‘Medieval Medicine with Winston E. Black’

See also:

The Coronavirus is not the Black Death

The Medieval Origins of Quarantine

Coping with Pandemics in the Middle Ages