The Last Major Outbreak Of The Black Death In Western Europe
The Great Marseille Plague
6 min readApr 25, 2024
In most people’s minds, the Black Death was a purely Medieval tragedy. The bubonic plague reached Western Europe in the 14th century and changed the world forever, but it did not stop there. It circled the globe and surfaced, disappeared, and surfaced again in a vicious cycle of death and sickness that paralyzed the…