Research Catalog
Plague and the end of antiquity : the pandemic of 541-750
- Title
- Plague and the end of antiquity : the pandemic of 541-750 / edited by Lester K. Little.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Supplementary Content
Available Online
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-3167 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Little, Lester K.
- Description
- xiv, 360 p. : map; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-354) and index.
- Contents
- Life and afterlife of the first plague pandemic / Lester K. Little -- Historians and epidemics: simple questions, complex answers / Jo N. Hays -- For whom does the writer write?: the first bubonic plague pandemic according to Syriac sources / Michael G. Morony -- Justinianic plague in Syria and the archaeological evidence / Hugh N. Kennedy -- Crime and punishment: the plague in the Byzantine Empire, 541-749 / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- Bubonic plague in Byzantium: the evidence of the non-literary sources / Peter Sarris -- 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 -- Plague in Spanish late antiquity / Michael Kulikowski -- Plague in seventh-century England / John Maddicott -- The plague and its consequences in Ireland / Ann Dooley -- Ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of plague / Robert Sallares -- Toward a molecular history of the Justinianic pandemic / Michael McCormick.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-3167
- ISBN
- 9780521846394
- 0521846390
- 052171897X
- 9780521718974
- LCCN
- 2006009895
- OCLC
- 65361042
- Title
- Plague and the end of antiquity : the pandemic of 541-750 / edited by Lester K. Little.
- Imprint
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-354) and index.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Antiquity
- Added Author
- Little, Lester K.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-3167