{"id":371,"date":"2020-03-30T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-04-02T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T16:57:58","slug":"the-justinianic-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/uncategorized\/the-justinianic-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"The Justinianic Plague, by Merle Eisenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Merle Eisenberg, National socio-Environmental synthesis center (sesync), University of Maryland<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Eisenberg Justinianic Plague Lecture\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r81DHlE9lfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Primary sources along with reading questions for each of them can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Eisenberg-Justinianic-Plague-Primary-Sources.pdf\">here <\/a>in a PDF document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Primary Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The complete passage on Procopius and the Plague in Constantinople can be found online at the Fordham Source Book <a href=\"https:\/\/sourcebooks.fordham.edu\/source\/542procopius-plague.asp\">on Plague<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The datasets in the above PDF are from Mordechai et al (see further reading for full citation) and can be found there under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/116\/51\/25546\/tab-figures-data\">Figures and Supplementary Information<\/a>. If you want to dig into the underlying sources, that be found at the bottom of the same page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Mordechai &amp; Merle Eisenberg &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pastj\/gtz009\">Rejecting Catastrophe: the case of the Justinianic Plague<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Past &amp; Present<\/em> (2019), 3-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Mordechai, Merle Eisenberg, Timothy P. Newfield, Adam Izdebski, Janet E. Kay, and Hendrik Poinar, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1903797116\">The Justinianic Plague: An inconsequential pandemic?<\/a>&#8221;  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2019, 116 (51) 25546-25554.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/byz.2019.10\">The Justinianic Plague: An Interdisciplinary Review<\/a>.\u201d <em>Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies<\/em> 43, no. 2 (2019): 156\u201380.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michel Keller et al. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1820447116\">Ancient <em>Yersinia pestis<\/em> genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541\u2013750)<\/a>,&#8221;  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jun 2019, 116 (25), 12363-12372   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To Cite this Page<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eisenberg, Merle.  \u201cThe Justinianic Plague,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Middle Ages for Educators<\/em>, March 30, 2020. Accessed [date]. <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/medieval-italian-civic-chronicles-part-1\/\">http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/the-justinianic-plague<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merle Eisenberg, National socio-Environmental synthesis center (sesync), University of Maryland Primary sources along with reading questions for each of them can be found here in a PDF document. 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