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Editor's Introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Extraction of the genetic material of the causative organism of plague, Yersinia pestis, from the remains of persons who died during the Black Death has confirmed that pathogen’s role in one of the largest pandemics of human history. This then opens up historical research to investigations based on modern science, which has studied Yersinia pestis from a variety of perspectives, most importantly its evolutionary history and its complex ecology of transmission. The contributors to this special issue argue for the benefits of a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to the many remaining mysteries associated with the plague’s geographical extent, rapid transmission, deadly outcomes, and persistence.

Source: The Medieval Globe

DOI: 10.17302/tmg.1-1.2

Author: Monica Green

Language: English

Topic: Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Endowment for the Humanities, Arizona State University, University of Pittsburgh, DePaul University

OpenAlex ID: W4235730833

FWCI: 2.26

Cites: 40

Cited by: 27

Related to: 10