Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death

COVER
CONTENTS
PREFACE—The Black Death and Ebola
Carol Symes—Introducing The Medieval Globe
Monica H. Green—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
Anna Colet et al.—The Black Death and Its Consequences for the Jewish Community in Tàrrega: Lessons from History and Archeology
Sharon N. DeWitte—The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries
Stuart Borsch—Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt
Ann G. Carmichael—Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis
Nükhet Varlık—New Science and Old Sources: Why the Ottoman Experience of Plague Matters
Fabian Crespo and Matthew B. Lawrenz—Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists
Michelle Ziegler—The Black Death and the Future of the Plague
Robert Hymes—Epilogue: A Hypothesis on the East Asian Beginnings of the Yersinia pestis Polytomy
Monica H. Green et al.—Featured Source – Diagnosis of a “Plague” Image: A Digital Cautionary Tale
INDEX