A better Black Death story

What happens when researchers reexamine some of the basic facts about the Black Death? They start rewriting history and rethinking blame.

Guests: Hannah Barker (search.asu.edu/profile/3327620), professor at Arizona State University; Ulf Büntgen (geog.cam.ac.uk/people/buentgen), professor at the University of Cambridge; Martin Bauch (leibniz-gwzo.de/en/institute/team-z/martin-bauch), historian at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe

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