Toward an interdisciplinary methodology -- Stochastic modelling -- Black Death: the background -- Mathematical formulation of the knowledge bases -- Spatiotemporal mapping of the epidemic -- Epea pteroenta
Summary
"This book introduces a novel synthetic paradigm of public health reasoning and epidemic modelling, and then implements it in the study of the infamous 14th century A.D. Black Death disaster that killed at least one fourth of the European population." "The book includes the most complete collection of interdisciplinary information sources available about the Black Death epidemic, each one systematically documented, tabulated, and analyzed. It also presents, for the first time, a series of detailed spacetime maps of Black Death mortality, infected area propagation, and epidemic centroid paths throughout the 14th century A.D. Europe. Preparation of the maps took into account the uncertain nature of the data and integrated a variety of interdisciplinary knowledge bases about the devastating epidemic."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index
