Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval Infectious Disease

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Contagions: Society for Historic Infectious Disease Studies

Organizer Name

Michelle Ziegler

Organizer Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Presider Name

Philip Slavin

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Kent

Paper Title 1

Variation in Plague Mortality during the Second Pandemic

Presenter 1 Name

Nükhet Varlık

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Rutgers Univ.-Newark

Paper Title 2

Caveat Emptor: Illness and Fraud in the Genoese Slave Market

Presenter 2 Name

Hannah Barker

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Rhodes College

Paper Title 3

Leprosy and Tuberculosis Interaction in Medieval Europe: A Syndemic Approach

Presenter 3 Name

Fabian Crespo

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Louisville

Start Date

11-5-2018 10:00 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 1010

Description

This session will include papers on the plague (the Black Death), leprosy and tuberculosis.

Michelle Ziegler