Pandemic disease in the Medieval world : rethinking the Black Death /

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Imprint:Leeds, UK : Arc Humanities Press, 2019.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 335 pages)
Language:English
Series:Medieval globe ; v. 1.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12486125
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Other authors / contributors:Green, Monica Helen, editor.
ISBN:9781641899406
1641899409
9781942401001 (hardback)
Notes: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.
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Summary:"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.