Chris Callow
Biographic Data
| ID | 6049077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Callow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Callow |
| SIGNATURE | CALLOW C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alasdair Ross, Land Assessment and Lordship in Medieval Northern Scotland
The mystery of plague in medieval Iceland
This article is aimed at encouraging scholars to continue to take critical, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the cause and scale of historic plague outbreaks. It does this by reinvestigating two recorded outbreaks of plague in Iceland in 1402–4 and 1494–5. It is argued that these were episodes of pneumonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, and that the likely mortality was no more than 25% of the population in both cases. This contr…
Viking Archaeology in Iceland. Mosfell Archaeological Project
Viking Archaeology in Iceland. Mosfell Archaeological Project." Medieval Archaeology, 60(1), pp. 177–178
Hofstaðir
Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing – Edited by Else Mundal and Jonas Wellendorf
Reconstructing the past in medieval Iceland
Locating and dating sagas is a difficult but still important task. This paper examines the relationship between the Sagas of Icelanders, which are concerned with tenth‐ and eleventh‐century events, and the contemporary sagas of the mid‐thirteenth century. Drawing upon models from anthropology, it looks at how contemporary ideas permeated these historicizing texts and how genealogy and geography act as structures around which the past is remembere…
The mystery of plague in medieval Iceland
This article is aimed at encouraging scholars to continue to take critical, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the cause and scale of historic plague outbreaks. It does this by reinvestigating two recorded outbreaks of plague in Iceland in 1402–4 and 1494–5. It is argued that these were episodes of pneumonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, and that the likely mortality was no more than 25% of the population in both cases. This contr…
Reconstructing the past in medieval Iceland
Locating and dating sagas is a difficult but still important task. This paper examines the relationship between the Sagas of Icelanders, which are concerned with tenth‐ and eleventh‐century events, and the contemporary sagas of the mid‐thirteenth century. Drawing upon models from anthropology, it looks at how contemporary ideas permeated these historicizing texts and how genealogy and geography act as structures around which the past is remembere…
Reconstructing the past in medieval Iceland
Locating and dating sagas is a difficult but still important task. This paper examines the relationship between the Sagas of Icelanders, which are concerned with tenth‐ and eleventh‐century events, and the contemporary sagas of the mid‐thirteenth century. Drawing upon models from anthropology, it looks at how contemporary ideas permeated these historicizing texts and how genealogy and geography act as structures around which the past is remembere…
Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing – Edited by Else Mundal and Jonas Wellendorf
Hofstaðir
The mystery of plague in medieval Iceland
This article is aimed at encouraging scholars to continue to take critical, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the cause and scale of historic plague outbreaks. It does this by reinvestigating two recorded outbreaks of plague in Iceland in 1402–4 and 1494–5. It is argued that these were episodes of pneumonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, and that the likely mortality was no more than 25% of the population in both cases. This contr…
Viking Archaeology in Iceland. Mosfell Archaeological Project
Viking Archaeology in Iceland. Mosfell Archaeological Project." Medieval Archaeology, 60(1), pp. 177–178
Alasdair Ross, Land Assessment and Lordship in Medieval Northern Scotland
History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Icelandic (2 works) · Abandonment (legal (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Citation (1 work)