Recognizing plague epidemics in the archaeological record of West Africa by Daphne E. Gallagher, Stephen A. Dueppen

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Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

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Politics of Movement: Exploring Passage Points in Responses to COVID-19 and the Plague in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands by Janna Coomans, Claire Weeda

“…Such tensions were duly recognised during the recurring outbreaks of the plague in the Second Plague Pandemic between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. …”
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Origin and development of the medieval narrative tradition of 'Black Death' des­cription by T.F. Khaydarov

“…The origin and development of ancient plots associated with mass epidemics, which formed the basis of the medieval narrative tradition of describing the Black Death – the second plague pandemic was analyzed. This aspect has been poorly studied in modern historiography. …”
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Paleogenomics of the Plague Agent and Prospects for Paleogenomic Studies in Russia by G. A. Eroshenko, E. F. Batieva, V. V. Kutyrev

“…The review contains information on paleogenomic studies of the plague pathogen, Yersinia pestis, covering the prehistoric epoch, the periods of the first and second plague pandemics, epidemics and outbreaks of plague of the late XIX–XX centuries. …”
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Genotyping Yersinia pestis in Historical Plague: Evidence for Long-Term Persistence of Y. pestis in Europe from the 14th to the 17th Century. by Lisa Seifert, Ingrid Wiechmann, Michaela Harbeck, Astrid Thomas, Gisela Grupe, Michaela Projahn, Holger C Scholz, Julia M Riehm

“…Ancient DNA (aDNA) recovered from plague victims of the second plague pandemic (14th to 17th century), excavated from two different burial sites in Germany, and spanning a time period of more than 300 years, was characterized using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis. …”
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Differential word expression analyses highlight plague dynamics during the second pandemic by Rémi Barbieri, Riccardo Nodari, Michel Signoli, Sara Epis, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt

“…Research on the second plague pandemic that swept over Europe from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries mainly relies on the exegesis of contemporary texts and is prone to interpretive bias. …”
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Reflections on plague in African history (14th–19th c.) by Gérard Chouin

“…Known today as the Second Plague Pandemic—a zoonosis due to the bacterium Yersinia pestis—it scythed between a third and half of the population without regard for wealth or status. …”
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