Buboes in Thirteenth-Century China: Evidence from Chinese Medical Writings
Journal: Amsterdam University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

In a previous contribution to <i>The Medieval Globe</i>, I proposed the hypothesis that certain epidemics reported in association with the Mongol invasion of China and adjacent states during the thirteenth century and after were plague, and perhaps the first historically recorded manifestation of the Second Pandemic. This article supports that hypothesis using evidence largely from Chinese medical texts of the eleventh through the eighteenth centuries, to show that these epidemics in North Chine