Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World : Rethinking the Black Death /

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Other Authors: Green, Monica Helen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Kalamazoo : Arc Medieval Press, [2015]
Series:Medieval globe ; v. 1.
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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 Muntane 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.