Infectious Ideas is a comparative analysis of how Muslim and Christian scholars explained the transmission of disease in the premodern Mediterranean world. How did religious communities respond to and make sense of epidemic disease? To answer this, historian Justin K. Stearns lo…
Examines the causes, effects, and legacy of the epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the fourteenth century.
Examines the causes, effects, and legacy of the epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the fourteenth century.
Traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of the infamous outbreak of plague that spread across Europe from 1347 to 1351.
Examines the causes, effects, and legacy of the epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the fourteenth century.
Traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of the infamous outbreak of plague that spread across Europe from 1347 to 1351.
This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwar…
A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. The book tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in it's initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where th…
