Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death

Monica Helen Green (Editor), Carol Lynne Symes (Editor)

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Place of PublicationKalamazoo, MI
PublisherArc Humanities Press
Number of pages359
ISBN (Print)9781942401001
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

Publication series

NameThe Medieval Globe Books Series
Volume1

Keywords

  • Plague
  • Epidemics
  • Pandemics
  • Pest
  • Black Death
  • History, Medieval
  • Pandemie
  • Mittelalter

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