Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World : Rethinking the Black Death / edited by Monica H. Green. - 1 online resource (359 pages): illustrations (some color) ; - The medieval globe ; volume 1 . - Medieval globe ; v. 1. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface - The Black Death and Ebola: on the value of comparison / Introducing The Medieval Globe / Editor's introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death / Taking 'pandemic' seriously: making the Black Death global / The Black Death and its consequences for the Jewish community in Tàrrega: lessons from history and archeology / The anthropology of plague: insights from bioarchaeological analyses of epidemic cemeteries / Plague depopulation and irrigation decay in Medieval Egypt / Plague persistence in Western Europe: a hypothesis / New science and old sources: why the Ottoman experience of plague matters / Heterogeneous immunological landscapes and medieval plague: an invitation to a new dialogue between historians and immunologists / The Black Death and the future of the plague / Epilogue: A hypothesis on the East Asian beginnings of the Yersinia pestis polytomy / Monica H. Green -- Carol Symes -- Monica H.Green -- Monica H. Green -- Anna Colet, Josep Xavier Muntane i Santiveri, Jordi Ruíz Ventura, Oriol Saula, M. Eulàlia Subirà de Galdàcano, and Clara Jáuregui -- Sharon N. DeWitte -- Stuart Borsch -- Ann G. Carmichael -- Nukhet Varlik -- Fabian Crespo and Matthew B. Lawrenz -- Michelle Ziegler -- Robert Hymes -- Diagnosis of a "plague" image: a digital cautionary tale / Monica H. Green, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, and Wolfgang P. Müller.

Open Access

9781942401018




Plague.
Epidemics.
Black Death.
Pandemics--history.
History, Medieval.
Plague--history.
Plague--epidemiology.
Epidemics--History.
Plague--History.
Black Death--History.


History.
Electronic books.

RC172 / .P36 2015

614.5732 (P)