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Video disc
Title:
The black death : new lessons from recent research.
ISBN:
9781644652770
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2022]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book
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Contents:
Reassessing the Black Death ; A deeper dive into rat and flea behavior ; Human-to-human plague transmission ; Plague, grain, and the Mongols ; The Big Bang of the Black Death ; The fate of the plague's survivors -- The old world falls away.
Summary:
Since March 2022, the world has experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine more than 400 years of the bubonic plague that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. We thought we knew its causes. In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, medievalist Dorsey Armstrong robustly describes plague biology, correcting inaccurate pandemic explanations. COVID-19 isn't likely to be humanity's last experience with a zoonotic disease. What can we learn now from these two pandemics?
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