The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries: Perspectives and Controversies / Ole Jørgen Benedictow.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- RC178.S34 .B464 2016
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-1349 -- 3 The Black Death in Norway: Arrival, Spread, Mortality. Discussions with Birger Lindanger and Hallvard Bjørkvik -- 4 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-49: Sources, Chronology, Spread. Discussion with Kåre Lunden -- 5 The Spread of the Black Death in Norway: Revisionists, Spread Rates, Alternative Microbiological Theories and the Role of Mutation: Discussion with Kåre Lunden and Lars Walløe -- 6 Walløe, Juhasz and the Sociology of Plague -- 7 Lars Walløe's Human-Flea Theory of Plague Epidemology -- 8 Black Rats in the Nordic Scandinavian Countries. Discussion of Papers by Lars Walløe and Anne K. Hufthammer -- 9 The Relevance of Recent Theories on the Microbiological Identity and Epidemiology of Plague for Scandinavian Plague History: In-Depth Studies of Two Danish Publications on Plague -- 10 The Eight Alternative Theory on the Plague Epidemics of the Past: Discussion of Ole G. Moseng's Composite Theory -- 11 On the Theories That Plague Epidemics of the Past Were Spread by Cross-Infection by Human Lice or by Human Lice and Fleas. Discussion of Recent Works by Raoult and Drancourt, and by Walløe -- 12 Problems with the Early-Phase Theory of the Transmission of Plague, Especially with Respect to Epidemic Plague -- General Bibliography -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Index
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This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form of a collection of articles, the author presents an in-depth monographic study on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics.
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