Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World : Rethinking the Black Death

• Tác giả: Monica H Green, Carol Symes
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Arc Humanities Press 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (340 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 199570
• Chủ đề: 1. General & world history; 2. History of medicine; 3. Medieval history

Tóm tắt

This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.