Managing Editor: Katarzyna Michalak. Language Editor: Michael M. Brescia.
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 on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics.
Author(s): Ole Jørgen Benedictow
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XXVI+710
City: Berlin
Preface xi
Postscript xviii
Bibliography xx
Glossary xxii
1. Introduction 1
2. The Black Death in Norway, 1348-1349 100
3. The Black Death in Norway: Arrival, Spread, Mortality. Discussions with Birger Lindanger and Hallvard Bjørkvik 183
4. The Black Death in Norway, 1348-49: Sources, Chronology, Spread. Discussion with Kåre Lunden 255
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 307
6. Walløe, Juhasz and the Sociology of Plague 344
7. Lars Walløe’s Human-Flea Theory of Plague Epidemology 355
8. Black Rats in the Nordic Scandinavian Countries. Discussion of Papers by Lars Walløe and Anne K. Hufthammer 395
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 452
10. The Eight Alternative Theory on the Plague Epidemics of the Past: Discussion of Ole G. Moseng’s Composite Theory 491
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 593
12. Problems with the Early-Phase Theory of the Transmission of Plague, Especially with Respect to Epidemic Plague 625
General Bibliography 666
List of Figures 692
List of Tables 693
Index 694
