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Pandemic disease in the medieval world : rethinking the Black Death /

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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Monica Helen (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Kalamazoo : Arc Medieval Press, [2015]
Series:Medieval globe ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Epidemics > History.
Plague > History.
Black Death > History.
Medicine, Medieval.
Plague > epidemiology
Plague > history
History, Medieval
Pandemics > history
Peste > Histoire.
Peste noire > Histoire.
Médecine médiévale.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Black Death.
Epidemics.
Plague.
Mittelalter
Pest
Pandemie
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781942401018
1942401019
1942401000
9781942401001
1641899409
9781641899406