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The Justinianic Plague: Rome's Forgotten Pandemic and the Fight Over What It Destroyed

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In 541 a grain ship out of Pelusium carried something no manifest recorded, and within a year Yersinia pestis was killing thousands a day in Constantinople. But how catastrophic was it really? This book reconstructs the pandemic's documented path and then turns, at length, to the argument historians are still having about what it destroyed.

What you get

• Introduction, ten chapters, a full chronology and a verified reading list
• The biology of the three forms of plague, and what each implies for how it spread
• The maximalist case, the minimalist rebellion, and the rebuttals to the rebuttals — Harper, Little and Stathakopoulos against Mordechai and Eisenberg, with Meier and Sarris
• Drawn from Procopius and John of Ephesus, and from the paleogenetic work of Wagner, Feldman and Keller
• A4 and US Letter PDFs, plus a mobile edition and an EPUB

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