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245 00 $aPandemic disease in the medieval world :$brethinking the Black Death /$cedited by Monica H. Green.
264 1 $aKalamazoo :$bArc Medieval Press,$c[2015]
300 $axx, 339 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
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490 1 $aThe medieval globe ;$vvolume 1
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPreface - The Black Death and Ebola: on the value of comparison /$rMonica H. Green --$tIntroducing The Medieval Globe /$rCarol Symes --$tEditor's introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death /$rMonica H.Green --$tTaking 'pandemic' seriously: making the Black Death global /$rMonica H. Green --$tThe Black Death and its consequences for the Jewish community in Tàrrega: lessons from history and archeology /$rAnna Colet, Josep Xavier Muntané i Santiveri, Jordi Ruíz Ventura, Oriol Saula, M. Eulàlia Subirà de Galdàcano, and Clara Jáuregui --$tThe anthropology of plague: insights from bioarchaeological analyses of epidemic cemeteries /$rSharon N. DeWitte --$tPlague depopulation and irrigation decay in Medieval Egypt /$rStuart Borsch --$tPlague persistence in Western Europe: a hypothesis /$rAnn G. Carmichael --$tNew science and old sources: why the Ottoman experience of plague matters /$rNukhet Varlik --$tHeterogeneous immunological landscapes and medieval plague: an invitation to a new dialogue between historians and immunologists /$rFabian Crespo and Matthew B. Lawrenz --$tThe Black Death and the future of the plague /$rMichelle Ziegler --$tEpilogue: A hypothesis on the East Asian beginnings of the Yersinia pestis polytomy /$rRobert Hymes -- Diagnosis of a "plague" image: a digital cautionary tale /$rMonica H. Green, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, and Wolfgang P. Müller.
520 $aIt 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. Previous research has shown, especially for Western Europe, how population losses then led to structural economic, political, and social changes. But why and how did the pandemic happen in the first place? When and where did it begin? How was it sustained? What was its full geographic extent? And when did it really end? Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World is the first book to synthesize the new evidence and research methods that are providing fresh answers to these crucial questions. It was only in 2011, thanks to ancient DNA recovered from remains unearthed in London's East Smithfield cemetery, that the full genome of the plague pathogen was identified. This single-celled organism probably originated 3000-4000 years ago and has caused three pandemics in recorded history: the Justinianic (or First) Plague pandemic, around 541-750; the Black Death (Second Plague Pandemic), conventionally dated to the 1340s; and the Third Plague pandemic, usually dated from around 1894 to the 1930s. This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physcial sciences to address the question of how recent work in genetics, zoology, and epidemiology can enable a rethinking of the Black Death's global reach and its larger historical significance. -- from back cover.
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650 22 $aHistory, Medieval.
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700 1 $aGreen, Monica Helen,$eeditor.
830 0 $aMedieval globe ;$vv. 1.
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