Plague and the End of Antiquity
The Pandemic of 541-750
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9087651 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Riddle (North Carolina State University, corresponding author), J Riddle |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 250-252 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5045 • E-ISSN: 1468-4373 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhmas/jrn070 |
| OpenAlex | W1497730167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
Usually collaborated volumes with multiple authors (this volume has a dozen) have little unity other than that imposed by the title and by the valiant editor's effort in his introduction. This work is a happy exception: it is unified by content and theme, even though authored by talented historians with a variety of specializations. Various aspects are explored on the nature of the sixth-century pandemic and its two-hundred year run in human history but not to the exclusion of social, religious, and economic consequences of the plague. Unanimously all authors (except for one who says it does not matter) agree that the pandemic was the bubonic plague caused by Yersinia pestis; virtually all modern authorities recognize the preponderance of evidence that the Justinian plague (as the one beginning in the sixth century is called) was caused by a Y. pestis biovar called Antiqua (contrasted with Medievalis, the name given to the Black Plague epidemic of the fourteenth century). New archaeological and bio-molecular evidence is persuasive—we know the genome sequence for these biovars), and, moreover, the biological data are happily compatible with our historical documentary sources. Not all pandemics during this time frame were the bubonic plague, however.
Ancient history · Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Dozen · Genealogy · Geography · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Pandemic · Plague (disease) · Theme (computing) · Variety (cybernetics) · Yersinia pestis · Genetics · History · Medicine · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
Dust clouds, climate change and coins
Intestinal parasites from public and private latrines and the harbour canal in Roman Period Ephesus, Turkey (1st c. BCE to 6th c. CE)
Going native, becoming German
Popular Religion and Material Responses to Pandemic
Retrospective diagnosis and the use of historical texts for investigating disease in the past
What Made a Peasantry
Overall frailty gauged in victims of the Italian plague (Imola, 1630-1632)
Dari Tradisional Menuju Digital
Don’t Forget the Children! A Review of the Consequences of Natural Disasters and Epidemics on Childhood Health and Mortality in the Past
Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds
Should We Teach That the Cause of the Black Death Was Bubonic Plague
Transportation, Communication, and the Movement of Peoples in the Frankish Kingdom, ca. 500–900 C.E
An Introduction to Medieval Environmental History
Introduction
A Synthesis of Pollen Composition in Prehistoric Cultivation Layers in Southwestern Norway
Collecting and Curating Covid-19 Heritage
The Justinianic plague
Smallpox's antiquity in doubt
Correlation of Seismic Data and Sediment Cores From the Seabed in the Medieval Harbour at Avaldsnes, Norway
Movement and risk perception
Family graves? The genetics of collective burials in early medieval southern Germany on trial
No Man is an island
The Circulation of Yersinia pestis in Central Eurasia before and during the First Plague Pandemic (Second to Eighth Century CE)
Population Dynamics in Italy in the Middle Ages
Plague, Climate and Faith in Early Medieval Western Britain
Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic
Rivers of Risk and Redemption in Gregory of Tours’ Writings
Structural change and economic development in the Islamic Middle East 700–1500
Agricultural Resilience during the 6thCentury Crisis
People, Plagues, and Prices in the Roman World
Plague and Lethal Epidemics in the Pre-Industrial World
Plagues, Wages, and Economic Change in the Islamic Middle East, 700-1500
Political and cultural changes as an effect of the pestilences and pandemics through the centuries
A Global Perspective
Bioarchaeology in the ancient N ear E ast
Warfare and Environment in the Ancient World
Zuqnīn Chronicle
Manufacturing
The Relations between China and the Steppe
Sasanian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia
“Charismatic” Goods
Trade and Exchanges along the Silk and Steppe Routes in Late Antique Eurasia
The Languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the Transmission of Mediterranean Culture into Central Asia
Infrastructures of Legitimacy in Inner Asia
Money and finance
Predation
Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road
Central Asia in the Late Roman Mental Map, Second to Sixth Centuries
Approaching the Roman economy
The contribution of economics
Contract labor
Ethnicity and Empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes
Slavery
Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid
How the Steppes Became Byzantine
A forum on trade
Patterns of Roman Diplomacy with Iran and the Steppe Peoples
Transport
The Stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia
Byzantium’s Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Türk Empire
Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900
Followers and Leaders in Northeastern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries
Epilogue
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
History meets palaeoscience
Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago
Ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes
| Unique citing works | 67 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |