Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface - The Black Death and Ebola: on the value of comparison / Monica H. Green -- Introducing The Medieval Globe / Carol Symes -- Editor's introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death / Monica H.Green -- Taking 'pandemic' seriously: making the Black Death global / Monica H. Green -- The Black Death and its consequences for the Jewish community in Tàrrega: lessons from history and archeology / Anna Colet, Josep Xavier Muntane i Santiveri, Jordi Ruíz Ventura, Oriol Saula, M. Eulàlia Subirà de Galdàcano, and Clara Jáuregui -- The anthropology of plague: insights from bioarchaeological analyses of epidemic cemeteries / Sharon N. DeWitte -- Plague depopulation and irrigation decay in Medieval Egypt / Stuart Borsch -- Plague persistence in Western Europe: a hypothesis / Ann G. Carmichael -- New science and old sources: why the Ottoman experience of plague matters / Nukhet Varlik -- Heterogeneous immunological landscapes and medieval plague: an invitation to a new dialogue between historians and immunologists / Fabian Crespo and Matthew B. Lawrenz -- The Black Death and the future of the plague / Michelle Ziegler -- Epilogue: A hypothesis on the East Asian beginnings of the Yersinia pestis polytomy / Robert Hymes -- Diagnosis of a "plague" image: a digital cautionary tale / Monica H. Green, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, and Wolfgang P. Müller.

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