Plague and the end of antiquity : the pandemic of 541-750
Lester K. Little (Editor, Writer of introduction), J. N. Hays (Writer of introduction), Michael G. Morony (Writer of supplementary textual content), Hugh Kennedy (Writer of supplementary textual content), Dionysios Ch Stathakopoulos (Writer of supplementary textual content), Peter Sarris (Writer of supplementary textual content), Alain J. Stoclet (Writer of supplementary textual content), Michael Kulikowski (Writer of supplementary textual content), John Robert Maddicott (Writer of supplementary textual content), Ann Dooley (Writer of supplementary textual content), Robert Sallares (Writer of supplementary textual content), Michael McCormick (Writer of supplementary textual content)
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
Kongress Rom 2001
xiv, 360 pages : map ; 24 cm
9780521846394, 9780521718974, 0521846390, 052171897X
65361042
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.