The Black Death with Thomas Asbridge

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Thomas Asbridge joins Brendan Dowd to discuss The Black Death and its impact on humanity.

Send us Fan Mail Let's survive! Thomas Asbridge joins me to talk The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic. Buy The Black Death (the book, not the disease) Support the show

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Host: Brendan Dowd

Guest: Thomas Asbridge

Topics covered

• The Black Death
• pandemic history
• global history
• humanity
• devastating events

Keywords

• Black Death
• pandemic
• history
• Thomas Asbridge
• devastation
• global history
• humanity

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Books & works: The Black Death

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