Special
Links
- At the well-crafted Advent of Diseases site, there is a page on Black Death
- A very interesting lecture on the subject of the great famine (1315-1317) and the Black Death (1346-1351). Highly recommended.
- Dr. Ellis L. Knox, of Boise State University, maintains a comprehensive index of web resources on the Black Death. Very useful.
- Deconstructing Disease, subtitled "A Historian Puts the Bubonic Plague in Perspective", by Jonathan Yardley. A review of a book by David Herlihy, "The Black Death and the Transformation of the West", from the pages of the Washington Post.
- The Black Death, a page at the curiously-named insecta-inspecta.com, is informative.
- A Black Death course syllabus for teachers, at rhodes.edu.
- A page on Yersinia pestis, the presumed causative agent of the Black Death.
- The Black Death, a page by Ronald J. Gordon.
Online source material
- Introduction to the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio.
- Ordinance of Labourers (England, 1349).
- Detection of 400-year-old Yersinia pestis DNA in human dental pulp: an approach to the diagnosis of ancient septicemia, by Drancourt et al. (PNAS Vol. 95, Issue 21, 12637-12640, October 13, 1998)
- Yersinia pestis - etiologic agent of plague by Perry & Fetherston (Clin Microbiol Rev 1997 Jan;10(1):35-66)
- Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is a recently emerged clone of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, by
Achtman et al. (PNAS Vol. 96, Issue 24, 14043-14048, November 23, 1999)
- How the plague bacillus and its transmission through fleas were discovered: reminiscences from my years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, by Ludwik Gross (PNAS Vol. 92, pp. 7609-7611, August 1995)
- Prevention of Plague: Recommendations of the ACIP, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control (MMWR December 13, 1996 / Vol. 45 / No. RR-14)
- Molecular and cell biology aspects of plague, by Guy R. Cornelis (PNAS 97: 8778-8783)
- The Yersinia Deadly Kiss, by Guy R. Cornelis (J. Bacteriol. 1998 180: 5495-5504)
- Evidence for two evolutionary lineages of highly pathogenic Yersinia species, by Rakin, Urbitsch and Heesemann (J. Bacteriol. 1995 177: 2292-2298)
- Identification of Bacterial Isolates Obtained from Intestinal Contents Associated with 12,000-Year-Old Mastodon Remains, by
Rhodes et al. (Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 1998 64: 651-658)
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