Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750.

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XIV, 360 p.: Map. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband leicht berieben und bestoßen, Knick im Buchrücken, eine Seite weist einen Einriss auf, sonst guter Zustand / binding slightly rubbed and scuffed, crease in spine, one page has a tear, otherwise good condition. - Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. Eight centuries before the Black Death, a pandemic of plague engulfed the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea and eventually extended as far east as Persia and as far north as the British Isles. It persisted sporadically from 541 to 750, the same period that witnessed the distinctive shaping of the Byzantine Empire, a new prominence of the Roman papacy and of monasticism, the beginnings of Islam and the meteoric expansion of the Arabic Empire, the ascent of the Carolingian dynasty in Frankish Gaul, and, not coincidentally, the beginnings of a positive work ethic in the Latin West. In this volume, twelve scholars using history, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology have produced a comprehensive account of the pandemic s origins, spread, and mortality, as well as its economic, social, political, and religious effects and its reappearance over time. The historians sources are in Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and Old Irish. The archaeologists sources include burial pits, abandoned villages, and aborted building projects. The epidemiologists use the written sources to track the disease s means and speed of transmission, the mix of vulnerability and resistance it encountered, and the patterns of reappearance over time. Finally, molecular biologists, newcomers to this kind of investigation, have become pioneers of paleopathology, seeking ways to identify pathogens in human remains from the remote past. / Contents Contributors Preface Map 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 II THE NEAR EAST 3. For Whom Does the Writer Write? : The First Bubonic Plague Pandemic According to Syriac Sources Michael G. Morony 4. Justinianic Plague in Syria and the Archaeological Evidence Hugh N. Kennedy 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 Non-Literary Sources Peter Sarris IV THE LATIN WEST 7. Consilia humana, ops divina, superstitio: 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 V THE CHALLENGE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 11. Ecology, Evolution, and Epidemiology of Plague Robert Sallares 12. Toward a Molecular History of the Justinianic Pandemic Michael McCormick Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780521718974 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 644. Seller Inventory # 1188583

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