Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
edited by Monica H. Green general editor Carol Symes
Arc Humanities Press, 2015 Cloth: 978-1-942401-00-1 | eISBN: 978-1-942401-01-8 Library of Congress Classification RC172.P36 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 614.5732
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introducing The Medieval Globe, by Carol Symes <br>Editor’s Introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World, by Monica H. Green<br>Taking “Pandemic” Seriously: Making the Black Death Global, by Monica H. Green<br>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<br>The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries, by Sharon N. DeWitte<br>Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt, by Stuart Borsch<br>Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis, by Ann G. Carmichael<br>New Science and Old Sources: Why the Ottoman Experience of Plague Matters, by Nükhet Varlik<br>Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists, by Fabian Crespo and Matthew B. Lawrenz<br>The Black Death and the Future of the Plague, by Michelle Ziegler<br>Epilogue: A Hypothesis on the East Asian Beginnings of the Yersinia pestis Polytomy, by Robert Hymes<br>Featured Source<br>Diagnosis of a “Plague” Image: A Digital Cautionary Tale, by Monica H. Green, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, and Wolfgang P. Müller
