Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Preface – The Black Death and Ebola: On the Value of Comparison

pp ix-xx

Introducing The Medieval Globe

pp 1-8

Editor’s Introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death

pp 9-26

Taking “Pandemic” Seriously: Making the Black Death Global

pp 27-62

The Black Death and Its Consequences for the Jewish Community in Tàrrega: Lessons from History and Archeology

pp 63-96

The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries

pp 97-124

Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt

pp 125-156

Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis

pp 157-192

New Science and Old Sources: Why the Ottoman Experience of Plague Matters

pp 193-228

Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists

pp 229-258

The Black Death and the Future of the Plague

pp 259-284

Epilogue: A Hypothesis on the East Asian Beginnings of the Yersinia pestis Polytomy

pp 285-308

FEATURED SOURCE

Diagnosis of a “Plague” Image: A Digital Cautionary Tale

pp 309-314

APPENDIX 1 - Text of Omne Bonum, “De Clerico Debilitato Ministrante Sequitur Videre

pp 315-318

APPENDIX 2 - Omne Bonum, “on Ministration by a Disabled Cleric”

pp 319-323

Bibliography

pp 324-326

Index

pp 327-339