The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague

The End of the First Wave (1x12)

Air date: Oct 31, 2016

Track the final stages of the plague's initial path through 14th-century Europe, from its incursion into Germanic lands to its devastation of Poland and Russia. Study the socioeconomic conditions within Russia, where lack of labor led to a slave-like system of serfdom, and consider psychosocial responses such as the building of one-day votive churches.