A Global History of Humanity’s Most Devastating Pandemic
Gone Medieval | 5 June 2026 | 1h 04m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Thomas Asbridge about his book The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity’s Most Devastating Pandemic. Challenges Eurocentric narratives, tracing the plague’s origins to 1330s Central Asia and its devastating global spread. Explores mortality rates of approximately 50% and contrasting religious interpretations – divine punishment in the West versus martyrdom in the Muslim world. Highlights how this age of plague,” coupled with climate change, acted as a catalyst for profound cultural, political, and religious transformations across the medieval world.