Pandemic disease in the medieval world : : rethinking the Black Death / / edited by Monica H. Green.

• Superior document: The medieval globe ; volume 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Green, Monica Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Kalamazoo : : Arc Medieval Press,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval globe ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 pages) :; illustrations (some color).

Table of Contents

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