Epidemic Diseases in the Middle Ages: Twenty-First-Century Understandings

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages

Organizer Name

William H. York

Organizer Affiliation

Portland State Univ.

Presider Name

Monica H. Green

Presider Affiliation

Arizona State Univ.

Paper Title 1

Plague Diffusion within and out of Europe's Uplands

Presenter 1 Name

Ann G. Carmichael

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Indiana Univ.-Bloomington

Paper Title 2

Is That Plague Image Really an Image of the Plague? Tackling the Digital Disconnect between Medieval Witnesses and Twenty-First-Century Understandings of Epidemic Diseases in the Middle Ages

Presenter 2 Name

Lori Jones

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Ottawa

Paper Title 3

The Rise and Fall of a Historical Plague Focus: The Case of Ottoman Anatolia

Presenter 3 Name

Nukhet Varlik

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Rutgers Univ.-Newark

Start Date

13-5-2016 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1130