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Author Benedictow, Ole Jørgen, author.

Title The Black Death and later plague epidemics in the Scandinavian countries : perspectives and controversies / Ole J. Benedictow ; managing editor, Katarzyna Michalak ; language editor, Michael M. Brescia
Published Berlin : De Gruyter Open, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (736 pages)
Series History, archaeology
Versita discipline. History, archaeology.
Contents Preface; Postscript; Bibliography; Glossary; 1 Introduction; Perspectives and Issues; What is Plague? Some Basic Facts on Contagion, Transmission, and Dissemination; 1.3 What to Look for and Keep in Mind: The Defining Features of Bubonic Plague and Some Crucial Fact; 1.3.1 Introduction ; 1.3.2 Defining Features; 1.3.3 Some Crucial Matters of Fact; Bibliography; 1.4 Serious Plague History Under Pressure: The Twelfth Alternative Theory of Historical Plague: Comm; 1.4.1 Introduction; 1.4.2 The Purported Functions of Caravans and the Silk Roads in the Transportation of Plague with an
1.4.3 Patterns of Spread and Comparative Spread Rates1.4.4 Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, I: On the Medievalist's Craft and the Fallacy ; 1.4.5 Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, II: On the Presence of Rats and the Local Pers; 1.4.6 Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, III. On the Life and Death of Rats; 1.4.7 On the Medievalist's Craft and more Fallacies of Reverse Circular Lines of Argument. The Funct; 1.4.8 The "Reintroductions" that Disappeared; 1.4.9 The Importance of the Historian's Craft for Understanding the Conquest of Plague and the Means
EpilogueBibliography; 1.5 The Triumph of Paleobiology in Historical Plague Research; 1.5.1 Introduction; 1.5.2 The Status of Paleobiological Studies, 1998-2014; Bibliography; Bibliography to Table 1.1; 2 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-1349 ; 2.1 Fundamentals of Plague Epidemiology; 2.2 Bubonic Plague and Pneumonic Plague; 2.3 Long Distance and Short Distance Spread of Plague; 2.4 Plague Epidemics' Pace of Development and Spread Rates; 2.5 The Territorial Origin of the Black Death and Its Route to Norway; 2.6 The Arrival of the Black Death in Oslo
2.7 The Black Death Conquers Østlandet [the "East Country"] in 13492.8 The Black Death Arrives in Bergen ; 2.9 The Black Death Comes to Nidaros (Trondheim); 2.10 The Black Death Arrives in Agder and Stavanger ; 2.11 The Triumph of Death: How Many People Died in the Black Death in Norway?; 2.11.1 Introduction; 2.11.2 The Question of Average Household Size and the Denial of Elementary Facts: Some Consequential; 2.11.3 Average Household Size, Numbers of Households in the Middle Ages, and Population Size and Dec; 2.12 Life After the Black Death; 2.13 The Powers of Spread of the Black Death
2.14 Contemporary Understanding of the Causation of Epidemic DiseaseAppendix 1: Plague Epidemics in Norway 1348-1500 and Their Provenience; Appendix 2: Some Basic Elements of the Medieval Norwegian Agricultural System which Affect Analysis; Bibliography; Unpublished Sources; Bibliography (including published sources and abbreviations); 3 The Black Death in Norway: Arrival, Spread, Mortality. Discussions with Birger Lindanger and Hal; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2. Lindanger's Views on the Black Death's Arrival and Spread in Norway; 3.2.1 Introduction: Sources and Source-criticism
Summary Annotation This book represents a continuation and recapitulation of the previous work of Benedictow. It consists of a collection of papers concerning the controversies over the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of the plague epidemics in the past inspired by the European discussion conducted over the last 30 years in the Scandinavian research community
Analysis Black Death, Nordic Countries, Medieval History, Early Modern History, History of epidemics
Notes 3.2.2 The Black Death in South-eastern Norway
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Black Death -- Scandinavia -- History
Plague -- Scandinavia -- History
Epidemics -- Scandinavia -- History
Diseases and history -- Scandinavia
Medicine, Medieval.
Plague -- history
Plague -- epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks -- history
Insect Vectors -- pathogenicity
Rats -- parasitology
History, Medieval
HISTORY -- Europe -- Scandinavia.
Medicine, Medieval
Black Death
Diseases and history
Epidemics
Plague
SUBJECT Scandinavian and Nordic Countries -- epidemiology
Subject Scandinavia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9788376560472
8376560476
9788376560465
8376560468
3110368153
9783110368154