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The other night I was mindlessly scrolling about on my phone through Instagram, as one does when they really ought to go to bed but are stuck being entertained instead of resting, when I came upon a video of a cute stripey cat. This ordinarily would not be the sort of thing that you would…
Abstract. When the Black Death struck Western Europe in late 1347, city dwellers across the region were already practising public health, in part by building, m
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The global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two and a half years—I am writing in the spring of 2022—has brought with it a renewed interest in public health and, when it comes to the Middle East, broader interest in how populations there e
The Medieval Globe (TMG) is a peer-reviewed journal launched in November of 2014 with a special issue on the Black Death as a global pandemic. It explores the modes of communication, materials of exchange, and myriad interconnections among regions, communities, and individuals in an era central to human history. TMG promotes scholarship in three related areas of study: (i) the direct and indirect means by which peoples, goods, and ideas came into contact; (ii) he deep roots of global developments; and (iii) the ways in which perceptions of the medieval past have been (and are) constructed aro...