{"id":935,"date":"2020-05-07T21:40:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=935"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T11:34:50","slug":"early-transmission-of-the-black-death-by-hannah-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/early-transmission-of-the-black-death-by-hannah-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Transmission of the Black Death, by Hannah Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Barker Early Black Death\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yjsT1r1OZ0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shprs.asu.edu\/content\/hannah-barker\">Hannah Barker, Arizona State University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Primary Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Fs_5WOkplmIPUIPSPBvr9sNKC0nJeQ29\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Petition from the Residents of Caffa, 1347<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mussis, Gabriele de\u2019. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Black_Death\/1O_PX2wVD0sC\">The Arrival of the Plague<\/a>.\u201d In <em>The Black Death, <\/em>ed. Rosemary Horrox, 14-26. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading: Primary Sources <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartsocas, Christos. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jhmas\/issue\/XXI\/4\">Two Fourteenth Century Greek Descriptions of the \u2018Black Death\u2019<\/a>.\u201d <em>Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences <\/em>21 (1966): 394-400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heyligen, Louis. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Black_Death\/1O_PX2wVD0sC\">The Plague in Avignon<\/a>.\u201d In <em>The Black Death, <\/em>ed. Rosemary Horrox, 41-45. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dols, Michael. \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/near-eastern-numismatics-iconography-epigraphy-and-history-studies-in-honor-of-george-c-miles\/oclc\/760401489\" target=\"_blank\">Ibn al-Wardi\u2019s Risalah al-naba\u2019 \u2018an al-waba. A Translation of a Major Source for the History of the Black Death in the Middle East.<\/a>\u201d In <em>Near Eastern Numismatics.&nbsp; Iconography, Epigraphy, and History:&nbsp; Studies in Honor of George C. Miles<\/em>, ed. Dickran Kouymijian and George Miles, 443-455. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1974. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muisis, Gilles. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Black_Death\/1O_PX2wVD0sC\">The Plague Seen from Tournai<\/a>.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>The Black Death,&nbsp;<\/em>ed. Rosemary Horrox, 45-47. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Black_Death\/1O_PX2wVD0sC\">The Report of the Paris Medical Faculty, October 1348.<\/a>\u201d In&nbsp;<em>The Black Death,&nbsp;<\/em>ed. Rosemary Horrox, 158-163. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villani, Giovanni. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/the-black-death-the-great-mortality-of-1348-1350-a-brief-history-with-documents\/oclc\/538080244\">Chronicle<\/a>.\u201d In John Aberth,&nbsp;<em>The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents<\/em>, 19-20. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\"><li>In this petition, the inhabitants of Caffa ask for money, soldiers, and a bishop. Why do they need each of those things? Why do they turn to the doge of Genoa for help?<\/li><li>At the time when this petition was written, had anyone in Caffa shown symptoms of plague? If so, which symptoms? If not, why did the petition mention \u201can endless plague of death\u201d?<\/li><li>Compare what this source says about the early transmission of the Black Death with the account of Gabriele de\u2019 Mussis. Based on what you know about modern medical research on plague transmission, which version makes more sense? Based on what you know about medieval ideas about disease and contagion, which version would make more sense to medieval readers?<\/li><li>Compare what this source says about the early transmission of the Black Death with another source from the list of Further Reading \u2013 Primary Sources. How are the two accounts similar? How are they different? What do you think the differences imply?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading \u2013 Seconday Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barker, Hannah.&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/bodoarxiv\/rqn8h\/\">Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain Embargoes and the Early Transmission of the Black Death in the Black Sea, 1346-1347<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Speculum&nbsp;<\/em>(forthcoming 2021).&nbsp;<a>Preprint on BodoArXiv, May 2, 2020.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dols, Michael.&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/black-death-in-the-middle-east\/oclc\/1083226401\">The Black Death in the Middle East<\/a><\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Green, Monica, ed. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.wmich.edu\/tmg\/vol1\/iss1\/.\">Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>In&nbsp;<em>The Medieval Globe<\/em>&nbsp;1, no. 1 (2014). Accessed May 7, 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schamiloglu, Uli. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/goldhorde.ru\/en\/stati2017-2-4\/\">The Impact of the Black Death on the Golden Horde: Politics<\/a>, Economy, Society, Civilization.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Golden Horde Review&nbsp;<\/em>5, no. 2 (2017): 325-343.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spyrou, Maria, Marcel Keller, Rezeda Tukhbatova, et al. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-12154-0\">Phylogeography of the Second Plague Pandemic Revealed through Analysis of Historical&nbsp;<em>Yersinia pestis<\/em>&nbsp;Genomes<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Nature Communications&nbsp;<\/em>10\/4470 (2019), 1-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Varlik, N\u00fckhet.&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Plague_and_Empire_in_the_Early_Modern_Me\/S6UHCgAAQBAJ\">Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600<\/a><\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To Cite This Page<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barker, Hannah, \u201cEarly Transmission of the Black Death,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Middle Ages for Educators<\/em>, May 7, 2020. Accessed[date]. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=935\">http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/uncategorized\/early-transmission-of-the-black-death,-by-hannah-barker\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Barker, Arizona State University Primary Sources Petition from the Residents of Caffa, 1347 Mussis, Gabriele de\u2019. \u201cThe Arrival of the Plague.\u201d In The Black Death, ed. Rosemary Horrox, 14-26. 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