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

• Pubblicazione: Kalamazoo : , : Arc Medieval Press, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 614.5732
• Soggetto topico: Black Death - History; Epidemics - History; Plague - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Soggetto non controllato: Global History; History of Medicine; Medieval Mediterranean; Pandemics
• Classificazione: NM 1500
• Persona (resp. second.): GreenMonica Helen
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Tàrrega: lessons from history and archeology / Anna Colet, Josep Xavier Muntané i Santiveri, Jordi Ruíz Ventura, Oriol Saula, M. Eulàlia Subirà de Galdàcano, and Clara Jáuregui -- 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. Müller.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Pandemic disease in the medieval world
• ISBN: 1-64189-940-9; 1-942401-01-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996433045603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Medieval globe ; ; v. 1.