After the Plague

After the Plague « Series from 2023

Series from 2023

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Genres: Documentary

In After the Plague dive into a world that is both like and unlike our own.

Using firsthand accounts, famous literary texts, new scientific evidence, and cutting-edge historical interpretations, investigate the plague’s pathology, its path across the European continent, and how it affected everything from high politics to family life in the decades that followed.

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