- Black Death - Culprit: Oriental Rat Flea
 - Describes the plague and the role that fleas played in transmitting the epidemic. - Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE
- From the Jewish History Sourcebook.
- Black Death, 1348
- Features map depicting the course of the plague through Europe and signs of and reactions to the disease.
- Black Plague Simulation
- Lesson simulating a pilgrimage during the time of the Black Plague epidemic.
- Black Plague Web Directory
- Provides links to general information and primary sources.
- Boccaccio: The Decameron - Introduction
- Onset of the Black Death, described by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375).
- Decameron Web Plague Page
- Includes contemporary perspectives, origins, causes, effects, and the plague as a literary motif.
- History of the Black Death
- Includes historical timeline and superstitious and scientific causes of the plague.
- History of Western Civilization: The Black Death
- Includes origins, contemporary accounts, and effects.
- Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: The Black Death
- Outlines the origins of the plague, its approach on Europe, forms and description of the disease, economic and cultural effects, and more.
- Ordinance of Laborers, 1349
- Vain attempt to freeze wages at their pre-plague levels, indicative of the labour shortage caused by the Black Death.
- PBS: Mystery of the Black Death
- Scientists study DNA to determine whether a genetic mutation saved the villagers of Eyam from death from the Black Plague. From the PBS series Secrets of the Dead.
- Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
- Archive of narratives, medical consilia, and religious and spiritual writings.
- Statute of Laborers, 1351
- Representative of the long-term problems of labour shortage caused by the Black Death.
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