The Black Death and later plague epidemics in the Nordic countries : perspectives and controversies / Ole J. Benedictow ; managing editor, Katarzyna Michalak, language editor, Michael M. Brescia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benedictow, Ole J., author.

Contributor:

Michalak, Katarzyna, editor.

Brescia, Michael M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plague--Scandinavia--History.

Plague.

Plague--Scandinavia--Epidemiology--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (710 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form of a collection of articles, the author presents an in-depth monographic study on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Postscript

Bibliography

Glossary

1 Introduction

2 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-1349

3 The Black Death in Norway: Arrival, Spread, Mortality. Discussions with Birger Lindanger and Hallvard Bjørkvik

4 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-49: Sources, Chronology, Spread. Discussion with Kåre Lunden

5 The Spread of the Black Death in Norway: Revisionists, Spread Rates, Alternative Microbiological Theories and the Role of Mutation: Discussion with Kåre Lunden and Lars Walløe

6 Walløe, Juhasz and the Sociology of Plague

7 Lars Walløe's Human-Flea Theory of Plague Epidemology

8 Black Rats in the Nordic Scandinavian Countries. Discussion of Papers by Lars Walløe and Anne K. Hufthammer

9 The Relevance of Recent Theories on the Microbiological Identity and Epidemiology of Plague for Scandinavian Plague History: In-Depth Studies of Two Danish Publications on Plague

10 The Eight Alternative Theory on the Plague Epidemics of the Past: Discussion of Ole G. Moseng's Composite Theory

11 On the Theories That Plague Epidemics of the Past Were Spread by Cross-Infection by Human Lice or by Human Lice and Fleas. Discussion of Recent Works by Raoult and Drancourt, and by Walløe

12 Problems with the Early-Phase Theory of the Transmission of Plague, Especially with Respect to Epidemic Plague

General Bibliography

List of Figures

List of Tables

Index

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110368154

3110368153

9788376560472

8376560476

OCLC:

979956936