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Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750
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by Lester K. Little
Sales Rank: 925945
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List Price: $89.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 380 pages
Published by: Cambridge University PressEdition: 1st Edition December 11, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0521846390
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521846394
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
"this work escapes the fate of so many single-subject edited volumes, remaining interesting and thought-provoking throughout. Each chapter has new ideas to provide the reader, and Little does an admirable job of editing a comprehensive volume with a minimum of repetition. .It is an great scholarly discussion and a base from which further research can occur. this book is an indication that this fascinating topic is finally receiving the scholarly attention it deserves." BMCR
"For those who want an indepth discussion of discrete topics, i wholeheartedly recommend Plague and the End of Antiquity."
Raymond J. Dawttwyler, M.D. The New England Journal of Medicine
" is a fascinating collection of essays by specialists in history, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology" --New York Review of Books
"Plaque and the End of Antiquity is a fascinating collection of essays by specialists in history, archeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology"
Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books
Product Description
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. Its 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, the first on the subject, twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines-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. The historians examine written sources in a range of languages, including Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and Old Irish. Archaeologists analyze 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 reappearence over time. Finally, molecular biologists, newcomers to this kind of investigation, have become pioneers of paleopathology, seeking ways to identity pathogens in human remains from the remote past.
Reader Reviews
Factors like epidemics as important historical forces have been largely underestimated. Little information has survived from these dark centuries and even less facts are available. This book tries to assess the demographic, economic and fiscal consequences of one of the first big epidemics which was recognised as such. Bringing in new methodologic approaches from biochemistry, the authors allow a clearer view with new facts.Due to the fact that we know very little from our written sources and even the demographics of antiquity are only in the beginnings, these new scientific approaches are an absolute necessity. A must for any student of the dark ages.
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