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The European Archaeologist
2022 •
Arc Humanities Blog
Plagues Past, Paths Forward (2019)2019 •
This is an invited guest blogpost to mark the 5th anniversary of the inaugural issue of *The Medieval Globe*. This was a special issue, devoted to the topic *Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death* (2014, with a bound-volume edition appearing in 2015). In the post, I revisit the genesis of the volume, and remark on all that has happened in plague studies in the intervening five years, including the discovery of Late Neolithic/Bronze Age plague (2015), the complete sequencing of several later medieval and early modern plague strains in Europe (2016 and 2018/2019), and developments in archaeology and History. In short, in some ways the volume has increasingly been making itself obsolete--a sign that our framing of plague's history in global terms was a fruitful assessment of the direction in which several fields in the sciences and Humanities would turn. For live links to all the highlighted work, go to the original blogpost here: https://arc-humanities.org/blog/2019/07/23/plagues-past-paths-forward/.
Ceylon Daily News
Plague and pandemic: Snapshots from history2020 •
The earliest records of plagues and pandemics are shrouded in mystery. Not surprisingly, accounts from those eras attribute them to divine retribution, if not to intrusions by foreign civilisations, prejudices that find their way even to modern scientific studies. This essay is an attempt at examining such accounts and understanding in what historical stages such epidemics occurred, from Ancient Rome to British India.
Centaurus 62:2
Rethinking the history of plague in the time of COVID‐192020 •
We are currently experiencing one of the most disruptive pandemics in modern history. The outbreak of COVID-19 that was first recorded in Wuhan, China and quickly spread across the globe has resulted in nearly 5 million confirmed cases to date and more than 300,000 deaths. Where we stand now, it is still uncertain how many it will infect or kill worldwide, how long it will continue, and when-if ever-life will return to normal. What we know for sure is that this is a pivotal moment and that we are experiencing a historic event that will transform our societies both profoundly and irreversibly. As we wade into this new age of pandemics, it is critical to rethink how we write the history of pandemics. With a conviction that the past helps us to understand the present and that the present should help us to rethink the past, I turn to the legacy of past plagues. In this essay, I take stock of the lasting legacies of past plagues because they continue to shape the way we think about new pandemics. In particular, I address persistent problems, such as European exceptionalism, triumphalism, and epidemiological Orientalism, that are not only ubiquitous in plague studies, but also staples of public opinion about pandemics, past and present.
The Medieval Globe
Monica H. Green, "Editor's Introduction to 'Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World'" (2014)2014 •
Extraction of 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. Keywords: Yersinia pestis, Second Plague Pandemic, Afroeurasia, anti-Jewish violence, bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, microbiology, historical method. This essay introduced the inaugural issue of the newly launched journal, The Medieval Globe. The General editor of the journal is Carol Symes; the guest editor of this volume is Monica H. Green. To access all the individual essays as well as the full volume, go to: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_globe/1/.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The Third Plague Pandemic in EuropePlague has a long history on the European continent, with evidence of the disease dating back to the Stone Age. Plague epidemics in Europe during the First and Second Pandemics, including the Black Death, are infamous for their widespread mortality and lasting social and economic impact. Yet, Europe still experienced plague outbreaks during the Third Pandemic, which began in China and spread globally at the end of the nineteenth century. The digitization of international records of notifiable diseases, including plague, has enabled us to retrace the introductions of the disease to Europe from the earliest reported cases in 1899, to its disappearance in the 1940s. Using supplemental literature, we summarize the potential sources of plague in Europe and the transmission of the disease, including the role of rats. Finally, we discuss the international efforts aimed at prevention and intervention measures, namely improved hygiene and sanitation, that ultimately led to the disappearance ...
Jurnal Diplomasi Pertahanan
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Turkish Journal of Giftedness and Education
Üstün Yeteneklilerin Tanılanması (Kitap İncelemeleri)2018 •
2014 6th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT)
Studying an inexpensive wire discone antenna as a candidate for TVWS spectrum monitoring / sensing2014 •
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
La cohésion dans les textes narratifs : analyse d'un corpus d'apprenants FLE2018 •
Plant Breeding
Chromosome Substitution Lines: Concept, Development and Utilization in the Genetic Improvement of Upland Cotton2012 •
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El músico Carlos Hurtado Romero2008 •
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European radiology
Cine-cardiac magnetic resonance to distinguish between ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies: a machine learning approach2024 •
Estudos do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies
Heavy metals «versus» clay minerals in the quaternary sediments of the Cortegaça beach formation (Ovar, Portugal)1999 •