TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benedictow,Ole Jørgen
TI  - The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries: Perspectives and Controversies 
SN  - 9788376560472
AV  - RC178.S34 .B464 2016
U1  - 614.5732009480902 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Warsaw, Berlin : 
PB  - De Gruyter Open Poland, 
KW  - History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia
KW  - Medieval history
KW  - Plague
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - History
KW  - Black Death, Nordic Countries, Medieval History, Early Modern History, History of epidemics
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9788376560472
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