Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World

Rethinking the Black Death
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-942401-00-1
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 359 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Reihe: The Medieval Globe Books

This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Monica H

Symes, Carol

Weitere Mitwirkende

Symes, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introducing The Medieval Globe, by Carol Symes 

Editor’s Introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World, by Monica H. Green

Taking “Pandemic” Seriously: Making the Black Death Global, by Monica H. Green

The Black Death and Its Consequences for the Jewish Community in Tàrrega: Lessons from History and Archeology, by Anna Colet, Josep Xavier Muntané i Santiveri, Jordi Ruíz Ventura, Oriol Saula, M. Eulàlia Subirà de Galdàcano, and Clara Jauregui

The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries, by Sharon N. DeWitte

Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt, by Stuart Borsch

Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis, by Ann G. Carmichael

New Science and Old Sources: Why the Ottoman Experience of Plague Matters, by Nükhet Varlik

Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists, by Fabian Crespo and Matthew B. Lawrenz

The Black Death and the Future of the Plague, by Michelle Ziegler

Epilogue: A Hypothesis on the East Asian Beginnings of the Yersinia pestis Polytomy, by Robert Hymes

Featured Source

Diagnosis of a “Plague” Image: A Digital Cautionary Tale, by Monica H. Green, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, and Wolfgang P. Müller

Über Autor(innen)

Green, Monica H
Monica H. Green (Arizona State University) specializes in the global history of health and medieval European history. She has published widely on medieval medicine. Carol Symes is the founding executive editor of The Medieval Globe. She is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is associate professor of history, theatre, and medieval studies

Symes, Carol
Carol Symes is Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar and Associate Professor of History and Medieval Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.