The Black Plague Arrives - 541 CE | Plague of Justinian
Channel: Memento Mori History
Date: 2022-10-21

The Black Plague Arrives - 541 CE | Plague of Justinian #4

The Bubonic Plague Strikes the Byzantine Empire! In our fourth video on the Plague of Justinian, we go over the beginning days of the First Plague Pandemic. Come with us and dig into what it may have been like to live through such a thing. Find out about the Bubonic Plague symptoms, where the pandemic first began to spread, and of the war between the Persians and Byzantines that was abruptly put on hold.

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Sources:
The Books of the Wars - Procopius of Caesarea
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Justinian’s Flea – William Rosen
History of the Later Roman Empire – JB Bury
Justinian and the Byzantine – Andrea Giordani
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law – Justinian and the Corpus Iuris Civilis

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