Plague and the End of Antiquity (eBook, PDF)

The Pandemic of 541-750
Redaktion: Little, Lester K.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this volume, the first on the subject, twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology - have produced a comprehensive account of the pandemic's origins, spread, and mortality, as well as its economic, social, political, and religious effects. The historians examine written sources in a range of languages, including Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and Old Irish. Archaeologists analyse burial pits, abandoned villages, and aborted building projects. The epidemiologists use the written sources to track the disease's means and speed of transmission, the mix of vulnerability and resistance it encountered, and the patterns of reappearance over time. Finally, molecular biologists, newcomers to this kind of investigation, have become pioneers of paleopathology, seeking ways to identify pathogens in human remains from the remote past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511332043
• Artikelnr.: 38193597

Autorenporträt

Lester K. Little is Dwight W. Morrow Professor Emeritus of History at Smith College and former director of the American Academy in Rome. He is a past president both of the Medieval Academy of America and of the International Union of Institutes of Archaeology, Art History, and History in Rome. He is the author of Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France and Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Life and afterlife of the first plague pandemic
Lester K. Little; 2. Historians and epidemics: simple questions, complex
answers Jo N. Hays; Part II. The Near East: 3. For whom does the writer
write?: the first bubonic plague pandemic according to Syriac sources
Michael Morony; 4. Justinian plague in Syria and the archaeological
evidence Hugh N. Kennedy; Part III. The Byzantine Empire: 5. Crime and
punishment: the plague in the Byzantine empire 541-749 Dionysios
Stathakopoulos; 6. Bubonic plague in Byzantium: the evidence of the
non-literary sources Peter Sarris; Part IV. The Latin West: 7. Consilia
humana, ops divina, superstitio (Livy 7,2): seeking succor and solace in
times of plague, with particular reference to Gaul in the early middle ages
Alain J. Stoclet; 8. Plague in Spanish late antiquity Michael Kulikowski;
9. Plague in seventh-century England John Maddicott; 10. The plague and its
consequences in Ireland Ann Dooley; Part V. The Challenge of Epidemiology
and Molecular Biology: 11. Ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of plague
Robert Sallares; 12. Towards a molecular history of the Justiniac pandemic
Michael McCormick.