The Black Death and later plague epidemics in the Scandinavian countries : perspectives and controversies /
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Open,
2016
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| Series: | Versita discipline. History, archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Postscript; Bibliography; Glossary; 1 Introduction; Perspectives and Issues; What is Plague? Some Basic Facts on Contagion, Transmission, and Dissemination; 1.3 What to Look for and Keep in Mind: The Defining Features of Bubonic Plague and Some Crucial Fact; 1.3.1 Introduction ; 1.3.2 Defining Features; 1.3.3 Some Crucial Matters of Fact; Bibliography; 1.4 Serious Plague History Under Pressure: The Twelfth Alternative Theory of Historical Plague: Comm; 1.4.1 Introduction; 1.4.2 The Purported Functions of Caravans and the Silk Roads in the Transportation of Plague with an.
- 1.4.3 Patterns of Spread and Comparative Spread Rates1.4.4 Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, I: On the Medievalist's Craft and the Fallacy ; 1.4.5 Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, II: On the Presence of Rats and the Local Pers; 1.4.6 Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, III. On the Life and Death of Rats; 1.4.7 On the Medievalist's Craft and more Fallacies of Reverse Circular Lines of Argument. The Funct; 1.4.8 The "Reintroductions" that Disappeared; 1.4.9 The Importance of the Historian's Craft for Understanding the Conquest of Plague and the Means.
- EpilogueBibliography; 1.5 The Triumph of Paleobiology in Historical Plague Research; 1.5.1 Introduction; 1.5.2 The Status of Paleobiological Studies, 1998-2014; Bibliography; Bibliography to Table 1.1; 2 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-1349 ; 2.1 Fundamentals of Plague Epidemiology; 2.2 Bubonic Plague and Pneumonic Plague; 2.3 Long Distance and Short Distance Spread of Plague; 2.4 Plague Epidemics' Pace of Development and Spread Rates; 2.5 The Territorial Origin of the Black Death and Its Route to Norway; 2.6 The Arrival of the Black Death in Oslo.
- 2.7 The Black Death Conquers Østlandet [the "East Country"] in 13492.8 The Black Death Arrives in Bergen ; 2.9 The Black Death Comes to Nidaros (Trondheim); 2.10 The Black Death Arrives in Agder and Stavanger ; 2.11 The Triumph of Death: How Many People Died in the Black Death in Norway?; 2.11.1 Introduction; 2.11.2 The Question of Average Household Size and the Denial of Elementary Facts: Some Consequential; 2.11.3 Average Household Size, Numbers of Households in the Middle Ages, and Population Size and Dec; 2.12 Life After the Black Death; 2.13 The Powers of Spread of the Black Death.
- 2.14 Contemporary Understanding of the Causation of Epidemic DiseaseAppendix 1: Plague Epidemics in Norway 1348-1500 and Their Provenience; Appendix 2: Some Basic Elements of the Medieval Norwegian Agricultural System which Affect Analysis; Bibliography; Unpublished Sources; Bibliography (including published sources and abbreviations); 3 The Black Death in Norway: Arrival, Spread, Mortality. Discussions with Birger Lindanger and Hal; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2. Lindanger's Views on the Black Death's Arrival and Spread in Norway; 3.2.1 Introduction: Sources and Source-criticism.
