The Black Death Network
The 14th century was a profoundly tumultuous period in European history. Climatic deterioration in the first quarter of the century triggered harvest failures and human famine in a population that had...
View ArticleMichelle Ziegler — Biology and Public Health
I am an independent researcher interested in the natural history of Yersinia pestis. My training is in biology (MS) and biosecurity and disaster preparedness (MS). I’m interested in microbes from basic...
View ArticleJustin Stearns – Contagion in Muslim and Christian Thought
I am assistant professor at New York University – Abu Dhabi. My interest in the Black Death is primarily Muslim and Christian intellectual and social responses to the plague. I have written a book...
View ArticleIntroduction – Ann Carmichael
I am an historian of medicine and infectious diseases currently finishing a monograph on morbidity and mortality in Sforza-era Milan. While I have written article-length studies involving analysis of...
View ArticleBlack Death resources
The folks at Medievalists.net have recently updated their resources on the Black Death: http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/01/black-death/ Richard ThomasMore Posts - Website Follow Me:
View ArticleMedieval pig management
I have a new paper published that explores the impact of Black Death on pig management…I hope it is of interest. Hamilton, J. and Thomas, R. 2012. Pannage, pulses and pigs: isotopic and...
View ArticleRats cannot have been intermediate hosts for Yersinia pestis during medieval...
Journal of Archaeological Science Volume 40, Issue 4, April 2013, Pages 1752–1759 Rats cannot have been intermediate hosts for Yersinia pestis during medieval plague epidemics in Northern Europe Anne...
View ArticleAnother Black Death Burial Site in London
Medievalists.net (14.3.2013): Burial ground discovered in London may be victims of Black Death The Independent (15.3.2013): Unearthed after seven centuries the ‘Black Death’ pit skeletons that could...
View ArticleIntroduction – Alison Atkin
I am a second-year PhD student at the University of Sheffield, in England. The aim of my PhD project is to apply new theory and methods recently developed in palaeodemography to gain a deeper...
View ArticleLepra in the Middle Ages
A new genetic study dealing with Lepra: V. J. Schuenemann, P. Singh, T. A. Mendum, B. Krause-Kyora, G. Jäger et al., Genome-Wide Comparison of Medieval and Modern Mycobacterium leprae. Science (online...
View ArticleBlack Death in the US today
Neither the 14th century, nor a scientific paper, but probably nevertheless of some interest http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/squirrel-plague_n_3660709.html Rainer SchregMore Posts - Website
View Articlere: Livestock size change in the 14th century
For a little while now, I have been interested in identifying and explaining changes in the size of domestic livestock in the 14th century. This research was originally inspired by my analysis of the...
View ArticleVarious links from our facebook group
I just collected the links from recent posts in our facebook-group. http://www.medievalhistories.com/pest-or-plague/ – Pest or Plague? at Medieval Histories...
View ArticleBlack Death in the Media
Black Death today Belfast Telegraph (21.1.2014): Bubonic plague strain could return – http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/bubonic-plague-strain-could-return-29955070.html Gizmodo...
View ArticleAnother mass burial in London
Islington Gazette (24.7.2014): Amateur archeologists dig up ancient black death burial ground in Clerkenwell Rainer SchregMore Posts - Website
View ArticleMass Burial in Barcelona
Media report about a mass burial in Barcelona: Barcelona’s Black Death Victims. Archaeology Magazine (15.8.2014) – http://archaeology.org/news/2446-140819-black-death-spain-barcelona-mass-grave-plague...
View ArticleMass Burial in Ellwangen
The BlackDeathNetwork is not only in medieval mass burials, but here is another new discovery, dating to the 16th century from Ellwangen in eastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Rescue excavations in the...
View ArticleReintroduction or European reservoir? – a key question for possible effects...
A new article deals with the question of reintroductions of the Black Death from Asia and the role of reservoirs of Yersinia pestis in Europe. A database of historically recorded outbreaks of the...
View ArticleJames le Palmer’s Omne bonum
One of the reasons, why also the BlackDeathNetwork changed its design: http://arc-medieval.blogspot.ca/2015/03/getting-words-out-and-back-in-what-to.html The BlackDeathNetwork looks not only on the...
View ArticleIntroduction and new theses
Hello! My name is Michelle Laughran. I am Associate Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine and a historian of the plague and epidemic diseases in Renaissance Venice...
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