New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia

Zusammenfassung

Since 2014, when The Medieval Globe first presented the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on the Black Death as a global pandemic, the pace and intensity of research has intensified. This follow-up volume features two extended essays laying out evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was already ravaging China by the second quarter of the thirteenth century—over a century before it made its appearance in the greater Mediterranean region.

In a core contribution, Robert Hymes presents an extensive analysis of Chinese medical texts, showing that physicians were adapting their terminology and treatments to the emergence of a virulent new disease: plague. In an overarching essay, Monica H. Green summarizes the current state of our knowledge about the timing and expanse of the Black Death, showing how combined evidence from genetics and a reconstructed documentary record can create a coherent new narrative of one of the largest, and longest, pandemics in history.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage

1/2022

Copyrightjahr

2022

ISBN-Print

978-1-80270-101-2

ISBN-Online

978-1-80270-112-8

Verlag

Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire

Reihe

The Medieval Globe Books

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

98

Produkttyp

Sammelband