COVID-19: How 3 Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts

Andrew Latham begins with the Antonine and Cyprian twin plagues, which ravaged the Roman Empire and gave rise to Christianity.  A 19th-century engraving depicts the Angel of Death descending on Rome during the Antonine plague. (J.G. Levasseur/Wellcome Collection, CC BY) By … Continue reading COVID-19: How 3 Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts