New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia

New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia

  • Autor: Hymes, Robert; Green, Monica H.; Symes, Carol
  • Editor: Arc Humanities Press
  • Colección: The Medieval Globe Books
  • ISBN: 9781802701012
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781802701128
  • Lugar de publicación:  York , Reino Unido
  • Año de publicación digital: 2022
  • Mes: Noviembre
  • Páginas: 117
  • Idioma: Ingles
Since 2014, when The Medieval Globe first presented the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on the Black Death as a global pandemic, the pace and intensity of research has intensified. This follow-up volume features two extended essays laying out evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was already ravaging China by the second quarter of the thirteenth century—over a century before it made its appearance in the greater Mediterranean region. In a core contribution, Robert Hymes presents an extensive analysis of Chinese medical texts, showing that physicians were adapting their terminology and treatments to the emergence of a virulent new disease: plague. In an overarching essay, Monica H. Green summarizes the current state of our knowledge about the timing and expanse of the Black Death, showing how combined evidence from genetics and a reconstructed documentary record can create a coherent new narrative of one of the largest, and longest, pandemics in history.
  • COVER
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • EDITOR’S PREFACE: NEW EVIDENCE FOR THE DATING AND IMPACT OF THE BLACK DEATH IN ASIA CAROL SYMES
  • BUBOES IN THIRTEENTH-CENTURY CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE MEDICAL WRITINGS ROBERT HYMES
  • PUTTING ASIA ON THE BLACK DEATH MAP MONICA H. GREEN

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