This page is an index of posts on the Plague. Some of these posts are from one of my other blogs on medieval history.
Molecular Biology and Epidemiology
- Epidemiology, Climate Change and the Justinian Plague
- Identifying the Plague
- More aDNA from the Black Death
- Plague DNA from Late Antique Bavaria
- Detecting pathogens in medieval Venice
- A Plague Crypt from Late Medieval Bavaria
- Trench Fever and Plague in 14th Century France
- DNA of the Black Death at East Smithfield, London
- Black Death Genome Fished Out of East Smithfield
- Plague Detection by Immuno-PCR
- Achtman on Plague Evolution
- Mark Achtman on Plague Genetics
- Insights from the Plague Genome, Part 1: The Chromosome
- Molecular traces of the Black Death (on the Black Death Network)
- Remodeling the Plague Phylogenetic Tree
- Fleshing out Yersinia pestis
- Molecular Confirmation of Yersinia pestis in 6th Century Bavaria
Plague and Famine
Plague Dynamics and Vectors
- Ignoring the bugs and rats
- Cats, Camels, and the Plague
- Chain of Infection for the plague
- What makes a Super-Spreader?
- Primary Pneumonic Plague Transmission in the USA, 1900-2009
- Tracking a Life Yersinia pestis Infection with Bioluminescence
- Reactivation of Ancient Plague Foci in Libya, 2009
- Enzootic Plague and the Great Gerbil of Central Asia
Immune Response to the Plague
Book Reviews
- Japanese Use of Plague during World War II (Review of Sheldon Harris’ Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-up)
- Paul Slack’s Plague: A Very Short Introduction
- Cook & Cook’s The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth Century Seville
- The Great Pneumonic Plague of 1910-1911 (Review of William Summers’ The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease)
First Plague Pandemic – the Plague of Justinian, 541-c. 750
Some of these posts are on my early medieval blog, Heavenfield.
- Plague of 664
- 6th Century British Plague
- Plague texts from Late Antique Britain
- Beyond Pelusium
- Plague among the nuts (Ireland, 576)
- Plague DNA from Late Antique Bavaria
- The Plague of Justinian in Constantinople
- The Year of Three Natural Disasters: Ireland, AD 700
- Procopius’ Account of the Plague of Constantinople, 542
- Plague and the Origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- The Mortality of Children, Ireland 683-685
- The Ancient Silence (Lombardy, 560s)
- The Plague Ship of Marseilles, 588 AD
- St Michael, the Plague, and Castel Sant’Angelo
- Visualizing the Plague of Justinian in the Mediterranean
- Molecular Confirmation of Yersinia pestis in 6th Century Bavaria
Pestilence in the Works of the Venerable Bede (d. 735)
- Bede on the Plague
- Plague in a time of war (Northumbria, 684-685)
- King Oswald and the Sussex Plague
- PW: Cynefrith, Physician of Ely
- Bede on human illness
- Plague comes to Lindisfarne, Christmas c. 683
- Is this St. Cuthbert?
Second Plague Pandemic – ‘the Black Death’, 14th century
Black Death at Tourinai, 1349
- Art of the Black Death
- More aDNA from the Black Death
- Detecting pathogens in medieval Venice
- A Plague Crypt from Late Medieval Bavaria
- Trench Fever and Plague in 14th Century France
- DNA of the Black Death at East Smithfield, London
- Nature Presents Draft Sequence of the Black Death Genome [Video]
- Black Death Genome Fished Out of East Smithfield
- Did India and China Escape the Black Death?
- Plague at the Siege of Caffa, 1346
Sporadic Waves of Plague, 1400 – 1894
- Shi Daonan’s ‘Death of Rats’
- Plague in 18th century Egypt
- The Vampire in the Plague Pit
- Detecting pathogens in medieval Venice
- Pest Anatomized
- London Plague of 1665 [movie clip]
- Opening the Plague Files (Review of Cook & Cook, The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth Century Seville)
17th century London
Third Plague Pandemic – 1894 to c. 1950
- Japanese Use of Plague during World War II
- Primary Pneumonic Plague Transmission in the USA, 1900-2009
- A forgotten plague outbreak? (Pensacola, FL)
- The Great Pneumonic Plague of 1910-1911 (Manchuria)
Plague Today
- Uganda’s 2006 Plague Outbreak
- Plague: New Mexico, May 2011
- Primary Pneumonic Plague Transmission in the USA, 1900-2009
- Reactivation of Ancient Plague Foci in Libya, 2009
Miscellaneous
The Black Death (UK 2010, US 2011)
