New evidence for the dating and impact of the Black Death in Asia

• Verfasst von: Hymes, Robert Paul [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Green, Monica [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: New evidence for the dating and impact of the Black Death in Asia
• Mitwirkende: Symes, Carol [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: by Robert Hymes and Monica H. Green ; edited by Carol Symes
• Verlagsort: Leeds
• Verlag: Arc Humanities Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (89 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The medieval globe ; volume 8.1
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-1-80270-112-8
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Hymes, Robert Paul: New evidence for the dating and impact of the Black Death in Asia. - Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2022. - 89 Seiten
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1827702362
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

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.

Abstract

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.