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Verschlagwortet: disease

Under the weather: Medieval diseases with low mortality and high contagion

  As the world is facing a more and more preoccupying, if not straightforward frightening rise in COVID-19 infections, media either encourages us to ‘go medieval’ (in positive way) to fight the current pandemic, or they draw on historical knowledge...

Videopodcast: The Environmental Origins of the Black Death (Bruce M.S. Campbell)

Evening lecture held by Bruce M.S. Campbell (Belfast), 25 February 2016, International Conference „The Crisis of the 14th Century. ‘Teleconnections’ between Environmental and Societal Change?” (German Historical Institute, 24-26 February 2016);Conference report (upcoming) and programme of the conference Recommended further...