New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia / / Robert Hymes, Monica H. Green; ed. by Carol Symes.

Since 2014, when The Medieval Globe first presented the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on the Black Death as the first global pandemic, the pace and intensity of research has only intensified. This follow-up volume features two extended essays laying out evidence that the Second Plague Pandemi...

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Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The medieval globe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (117 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --
Editor’s Preface: New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia --
Buboes in Thirteenth-Century China: Evidence from Chinese Medical Writings --
Putting Asia on the Black Death Map
Summary:Since 2014, when The Medieval Globe first presented the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on the Black Death as the first global pandemic, the pace and intensity of research has only intensified. This follow-up volume features two extended essays laying out evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was already ravaging China by the second quarter of the thirteenth century—over a century before it made its virulent appearance in the greater Mediterranean region. In a core contribution, Robert Hymes presents an extensive analysis of Chinese medical texts, showing that physicians were adapting their terminology and treatments to the emergence of a virulent new disease: plague. In an overarching essay, Monica H. Green summarizes the state of our knowledge about the timing and expanse of the Black Death, to place it on the map of Asia and in the context of current debates.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781802701128
9783110767094
9783110767001
9783110993899
9783110994810
9783110992960
9783110992939
DOI:10.1515/9781802701128?locatt=mode:legacy
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