Plague and the end of antiquity
Subtitle: the pandemic of 541-750
By: edited by Lester K. Little.
Contributors: Little, Lester K.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521846394
Subjects: Plague -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.; Plague -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 1500.; Plague -- history -- Byzantium.; Plague -- history -- Europe.; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Byzantium.; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Europe.; History, Medieval -- Byzantium.; History, Medieval -- Europe.
Description: In this volume, 12 scholars from various disciplines - have produced a comprehensive account of the pandemic's origins, spread, and mortality, as well as its economic, social, political, and religious effects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Life and afterlife of the first plague pandemic / Lester K. Little; title: Historians and epidemics: simple questions, complex answers / Jo N. Hays; title: For whom does the writer write?: the first bubonic plague pandemic according to Syriac sources / Michael Morony; title: Justinianic plague in Syria and the archaeological evidence / Hugh N. Kennedy; title: Crime and punishment: the plague in the Byzantine Empire 541-749 / Dionysios Stathakopoulos; title: Bubonic plague in Byzantium: the evidence of the non-literary sources / Peter Sarris; title: 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; title: Plague in Spanish late antiquity / Michael Kulikowski; title: Plague in seventh-century England / John Maddicott; title: The plague and its consequences in Ireland / Ann Dooley; title: Ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of plague / Robert Sallares; title: Towards a molecular history of the Justinianic pandemic / Michael McCormick.