Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface – The Black Death and Ebola: On the Value of Comparison
- Introducing The Medieval Globe
- Editor’s Introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
- Taking “Pandemic” Seriously: Making the Black Death Global
- The Black Death and Its Consequences for the Jewish Community in Tàrrega: Lessons from History and Archeology
- The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries
- Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt
- Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis
- New Science and Old Sources: Why the Ottoman Experience of Plague Matters
- Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists
- The Black Death and the Future of the Plague
- Epilogue: A Hypothesis on the East Asian Beginnings of the Yersinia pestis Polytomy
- FEATURED SOURCE
- APPENDIX 1 Text of Omne Bonum, “De Clerico Debilitato Ministrante Sequitur Videre
- APPENDIX 2 Omne Bonum, “on Ministration by a Disabled Cleric”
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface – The Black Death and Ebola: On the Value of Comparison
- Introducing The Medieval Globe
- Editor’s Introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
- Taking “Pandemic” Seriously: Making the Black Death Global
- The Black Death and Its Consequences for the Jewish Community in Tàrrega: Lessons from History and Archeology
- The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries
- Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt
- Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis
- New Science and Old Sources: Why the Ottoman Experience of Plague Matters
- Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists
- The Black Death and the Future of the Plague
- Epilogue: A Hypothesis on the East Asian Beginnings of the Yersinia pestis Polytomy
- FEATURED SOURCE
- APPENDIX 1 Text of Omne Bonum, “De Clerico Debilitato Ministrante Sequitur Videre
- APPENDIX 2 Omne Bonum, “on Ministration by a Disabled Cleric”
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Pandemic Disease in the Medieval WorldRethinking the Black Death, pp. i - ivPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2015