A New Story of a Black Death
How Genetics Is Transforming Our Narratives Of The Plague
Location
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery
Date & Time
March 12, 2019, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Description
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program presents -
"A New Story of a Black Death: How Genetics Is Transforming Our Narratives Of The Plague"
Monica Green, Professor
of History at Arizona State University, specializes in medieval European
medical history and the global history of infectious diseases. In her
talk she will show how our understanding of the Black Death, the plague
pandemic that ravaged Europe, the Middle East, and north Africa between 1346
and 1353, has been transformed in the last decades because of new developments
in genetics. Historians and archaeologists are now learning to incorporate the
findings from genetics into new narratives, ones that show that this largest of
pandemics was even larger, and more widespread, than we ever imagined before.
Our story must now include not only the Mediterranean and Europe, but also
China and perhaps even much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Biology Department, the English Department, the Visual Arts Department, and the History Department.
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