Did the Black Death, the famous, devastating plague pandemic that struck the Mediterranean and Western Europe in the mid-14th century and seeded new strains of the pathogen, Yersinia pestis, in new locales, also reach Sub-Saharan Africa? That it reached the Islamic North African littoral has never been in question: there is ample testimony from Arabic documentary sources for its devastating effects from Egypt to the Maghreb. But did it stop there? Archaeologists now have reason to believe that there was widespread abandonment of urban communities in West Africa in the 14th or 15th centuries. Focusing on the other side of the continent, the present essay argues that previously unutilized evidence—a “living archive” of genetic data combined w...
The Black Death (1347–1352 CE) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to h...
The Black Death (1347–1352 CE) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to h...
Recent researches on plague invite scholars to enlarge the chronology and the geography of the Black...
Did the Black Death, the famous, devastating plague pandemic that struck the Mediterranean and Weste...
This study presents my second major attempt to make historical sense out of the new evidence emergin...
In 1347, the western and Mediterranean parts of the Old World recorded the first outbreaks of a retu...
In 1347, the western and Mediterranean parts of the Old World recorded the first outbreaks of a retu...
In 1347, the western and Mediterranean parts of the Old World recorded the first outbreaks of a retu...
The field of infectious disease history has been transformed in the past decade in large part becaus...
By Lizzie Wade In the 14th century, the Black Death swept across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, kil...
This essay introduces the inaugural issue of The Medieval Globe, “Pandemic Disease in the Medieval W...
Genetics evidence published in recent years suggests that certain strains of plague (Yersinia pestis...
Starting with the Black Death, and continuing over the century and a half that followed, plague depo...
Starting with the Black Death, and continuing over the century and a half that followed, plague depo...
AbstractThe Black Death (1347–1352 ce) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by m...
The Black Death (1347–1352 CE) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to h...
The Black Death (1347–1352 CE) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to h...
Recent researches on plague invite scholars to enlarge the chronology and the geography of the Black...
Did the Black Death, the famous, devastating plague pandemic that struck the Mediterranean and Weste...
This study presents my second major attempt to make historical sense out of the new evidence emergin...
In 1347, the western and Mediterranean parts of the Old World recorded the first outbreaks of a retu...
In 1347, the western and Mediterranean parts of the Old World recorded the first outbreaks of a retu...
In 1347, the western and Mediterranean parts of the Old World recorded the first outbreaks of a retu...
The field of infectious disease history has been transformed in the past decade in large part becaus...
By Lizzie Wade In the 14th century, the Black Death swept across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, kil...
This essay introduces the inaugural issue of The Medieval Globe, “Pandemic Disease in the Medieval W...
Genetics evidence published in recent years suggests that certain strains of plague (Yersinia pestis...
Starting with the Black Death, and continuing over the century and a half that followed, plague depo...
Starting with the Black Death, and continuing over the century and a half that followed, plague depo...
AbstractThe Black Death (1347–1352 ce) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by m...
The Black Death (1347–1352 CE) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to h...
The Black Death (1347–1352 CE) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to h...
Recent researches on plague invite scholars to enlarge the chronology and the geography of the Black...