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Title:

Pestilential complexities : understanding medieval plague / edited by Vivian Nutton.

Publisher:

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

viii, 130 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Plague--History--Congresses.
Black Death--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Nutton, Vivian.
Wellcome Trust (London, England). Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.

Notes:

"These essays were originally delivered as papers at a conference held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL in 2006"--P. vii. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Plague today / lisabeth Carniel. Universal and particular : the language of plague,1348-1500 / Ann G. Carmichael -- The language of plague and its regional perspectives : the case of medieval Germany / Kay Peter Jankrift -- Medieval and modern bubonic plague : some continuities / Lars Walløe -- Epidemiology of the Black Death and successive waves of plague / Samuel K. Cohn -- The archaeology of "plague" / Daniel Antoine -- Plague today / lisabeth Carniel.

Series:

Medical history. Supplement ; no. 27

ISBN:

0854841164
9780854841165

LCCN:

2008399268

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)