The Black Death and later plague epidemics in the Nordic countries : : perspectives and controversies /

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.

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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...

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Benedictow, Ole J.,
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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)
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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

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