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READING LIST:

Robert Forster and Orest Ranum (eds.), Biology of Man in History (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), especially ‘The Plague in the Early Middle Ages’ by J.-N. Biraben and Jacques Le Goff

Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Erik Hermans (ed.), A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages (Arc Humanities Press, 2020), especially ‘Climate and Disease’ by Peter Sarris

Lester K. Little (ed.), Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750 (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Michael Maas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Michael McCormick, ‘Gregory of Tours on Sixth-Century Plague and other epidemics’ - Speculum 96 (2021), p38-96

Mischa Meier, ‘The ‘Justinianic Plague’: An ‘Inconsequential Pandemic’? A Reply’ - Medizinhistorisches Journal 55 (2020), p172-199

Procopius (trans. H B Dewing), History of the Wars: Books I and II (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013)

William Rosen, Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe (Jonathan Cape, 2007)


RELATED LINKS:







Re Kyle Harper's book (listed above): J. Haldon et al., ‘Plagues, climate change, and the end of an empire: A response to Kyle Harper’s The Fate of Rome’, History Compass (fall 2018) – a three part review