UID:
edoccha_9959240757202883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 339 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-64189-940-9
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1-942401-01-9
Series Statement:
The medieval globe ; volume 1
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
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Preface - The Black Death and Ebola: on the value of comparison /
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Introducing The Medieval Globe /
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Editor's introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death /
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Taking 'pandemic' seriously: making the Black Death global /
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The Black Death and its consequences for the Jewish community in Tàrrega: lessons from history and archeology /
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The anthropology of plague: insights from bioarchaeological analyses of epidemic cemeteries /
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Plague depopulation and irrigation decay in Medieval Egypt /
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Plague persistence in Western Europe: a hypothesis /
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New science and old sources: why the Ottoman experience of plague matters /
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Heterogeneous immunological landscapes and medieval plague: an invitation to a new dialogue between historians and immunologists /
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The Black Death and the future of the plague /
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Epilogue: A hypothesis on the East Asian beginnings of the Yersinia pestis polytomy /
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-942401-00-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1515/9781942401018
