Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
by Monica Helen Green (ed.)
Publisher: Arc Medieval Press 2014
ISBN-13: 9781942401049
Number of pages: 336
Description:
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in genetics, zoology, and epidemiology can enable a rethinking of the Black Death's global reach and its larger historical significance.
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