Before and after 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death
Sponsoring Organization(s)
14th Century Society
Organizer Name
Monica H. Green
Organizer Affiliation
Arizona State Univ.
Presider Name
Monica H. Green
Paper Title 1
Mongolian Deportation Practices and the Demographic Impact of the Conquest of North China
Presenter 1 Name
Christopher P. Atwood
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Paper Title 2
Symptom-Addition as Theoretical Strategy: Evidences of Plague in Thirteenth-Century Chinese Medical Sources
Presenter 2 Name
Robert P. W. Hymes
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Paper Title 3
The Black Death in the Territory of the Ulus of Jochi and the Russian Principalities
Presenter 3 Name
Timur Khaydarov
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Kazan National Research Univ.
Start Date
13-5-2017 3:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 208
Description
Black Death narratives are usually told from the perspective of plague's effects on western Europe, yet it is likely that much of Eurasia and North Africa was affected by the pandemic. In many of those areas, plague “focalized,” becoming embedded in the local fauna and thus persisting for years, or even centuries, thereafter. This session will examine the late medieval pandemic’s origins before 1348 and long-term effects thereafter, including the possible role of Mongol practices of mass deportation and relocation of subject populations in disseminating the disease; the ways Chinese medical writers may have expanded their disease categories to account for this new scourge; and the long-term effects of plague focalization, particularly with respect to the Ulus of Jochi (Mongols of the Golden Horde) in what is now Russia.
Monica H. Green
Before and after 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death
Bernhard 208
Black Death narratives are usually told from the perspective of plague's effects on western Europe, yet it is likely that much of Eurasia and North Africa was affected by the pandemic. In many of those areas, plague “focalized,” becoming embedded in the local fauna and thus persisting for years, or even centuries, thereafter. This session will examine the late medieval pandemic’s origins before 1348 and long-term effects thereafter, including the possible role of Mongol practices of mass deportation and relocation of subject populations in disseminating the disease; the ways Chinese medical writers may have expanded their disease categories to account for this new scourge; and the long-term effects of plague focalization, particularly with respect to the Ulus of Jochi (Mongols of the Golden Horde) in what is now Russia.
Monica H. Green