Pandemic disease in the medieval world : rethinking the Black Death / edited by Monica H. Green.
It was one of the most famous health issues in history. The Black Death plague organism (Yersinia pestis) spread from Asia throughout the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Europe in the fourteenth century, and in just a decade it killed between 40 and 60 percent of the people living in those areas. P...
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Kalamazoo :
Arc Medieval Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Medieval globe ;
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Table of Contents:
- Preface - The Black Death and Ebola: on the value of comparison / Monica H. Green
- Introducing The Medieval Globe / Carol Symes
- Editor's introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death / Monica H.Green
- Taking 'pandemic' seriously: making the Black Death global / Monica H. Green
- The Black Death and its consequences for the Jewish community in Tàrrega: lessons from history and archeology / Anna Colet, Josep Xavier Muntané i Santiveri, Jordi Ruíz Ventura, Oriol Saula, M. Eulàlia Subirà de Galdàcano, and Clara Jáuregui
- The anthropology of plague: insights from bioarchaeological analyses of epidemic cemeteries / Sharon N. DeWitte
- Plague depopulation and irrigation decay in Medieval Egypt / Stuart Borsch
- Plague persistence in Western Europe: a hypothesis / Ann G. Carmichael
- New science and old sources: why the Ottoman experience of plague matters / Nukhet Varlik
- Heterogeneous immunological landscapes and medieval plague: an invitation to a new dialogue between historians and immunologists / Fabian Crespo and Matthew B. Lawrenz
- The Black Death and the future of the plague / Michelle Ziegler
- Epilogue: A hypothesis on the East Asian beginnings of the Yersinia pestis polytomy / Robert Hymes
- Diagnosis of a "plague" image: a digital cautionary tale / Monica H. Green, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, and Wolfgang P. Müller.