The Black Death and later plague epidemics in the Nordic countries : : perspectives and controversies / / Ole J. Benedictow ; managing editor, Katarzyna Michalak, language editor, Michael M. Brescia.

• VerfasserIn: Benedictow, Ole J.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Michalak, Katarzyna,; Brescia, Michael M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Warsaw ;, Berlin : : De Gruyter Open,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (710 pages)

This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form of a collection of articles, the author presents an in-depth monographic study on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-1349 -- 3 The Black Death in Norway: Arrival, Spread, Mortality. Discussions with Birger Lindanger and Hallvard Bjørkvik -- 4 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-49: Sources, Chronology, Spread. Discussion with Kåre Lunden -- 5 The Spread of the Black Death in Norway: Revisionists, Spread Rates, Alternative Microbiological Theories and the Role of Mutation: Discussion with Kåre Lunden and Lars Walløe -- 6 Walløe, Juhasz and the Sociology of Plague -- 7 Lars Walløe's Human-Flea Theory of Plague Epidemology -- 8 Black Rats in the Nordic Scandinavian Countries. Discussion of Papers by Lars Walløe and Anne K. Hufthammer -- 9 The Relevance of Recent Theories on the Microbiological Identity and Epidemiology of Plague for Scandinavian Plague History: In-Depth Studies of Two Danish Publications on Plague -- 10 The Eight Alternative Theory on the Plague Epidemics of the Past: Discussion of Ole G. Moseng's Composite Theory -- 11 On the Theories That Plague Epidemics of the Past Were Spread by Cross-Infection by Human Lice or by Human Lice and Fleas. Discussion of Recent Works by Raoult and Drancourt, and by Walløe -- 12 Problems with the Early-Phase Theory of the Transmission of Plague, Especially with Respect to Epidemic Plague -- General Bibliography -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Index