Please see below for past Lexicon readings from Fall, 2021, on Plague & The Global Middle Ages
Alfani, Guido. “Pandemics and Asymmetric Shocks. Evidence from the History of Plague in Europe and the Mediterranean.” Journal for the History of Environment and Society 5 (2020): 197–209. alfani_asymmetric
Cohn Jr., Samuel K. Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2021. 1-64. cohn_paradoxes
Einbinder, Susan L. After the Black Death. Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2018. 88-116. einbinder_epitaphs
Barker, Hannah. “Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain, Embargoes, and Yersinia pestis in the Black Sea, 1346–48.” Speculum 96.1 (2021): 97-126. [optional] barker_corpses
Borsch, Stuart. ”Plague, Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt.” Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World. Rethinking the Black Death Ed. Monica H. Green. ARC Press. 2014. 125-156. [optional] borsch_depopulation
Voitgländer, N. & Voth, H.-J. “The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe.” Review of Economic Studies 80.2 (2013): 774–811. [optional] Voigtländer_Voth_horsemen
Chouin, Gerard. “Reflections on Plague in African History (14th-19th c.),” Afriques 9 (2018): https://journals.openedition.org/afriques/2228
Fancy, Nahyan, & Green, Monica H. (2021). “Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258).” Medical History 65.2 (2021): 157-177. fancy_green_baghdad
Singer, Rachel. “The Black Death in the Maghreb: A Call to Action.” Journal of Medieval Worlds 2.3-4 (2020): 115–123. singer_death_maghreb
Varlik, Nükhet. “Beyond Eurocentric Histories of Plague .” Early Science and Medicine 22.4 (2017): 361-374. varlik_eurocentric_plagu
Green, Monica H. “The Four Black Deaths.” The American Historical Review 125.5 (2020): 1601–1631. [Optional] green_four_deaths
Roosen, Joris & Curtis, Daniel R. “The ‘Light Touch’ of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands: an Urban Trick?” The Economic History Review 72.1 (2019): 32-56. [Optional] roosen_curtis_light_touch
Green, Monica H. “Taking “Pandemic” Seriously: Making the Black Death Global.” Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death. Ed. Monica Green. ARC Press. 2014. 27-62. [Optional] green_pandemic_seriously
Einbinder, Susan L. After the Black Death. Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2018. 57-87. einbinder_after
Ibn Kathīr, Ibn al-Wardī, and Ibn Al-Khatib. The Black Death. The Great Mortality of 1348-1350. A Brief History with Documents. Ed. John Aberth. New York: Palgrave, 2005. 110-116. muslim_accounts_plague
López de Córdoba. Leonor. “Memoirs of a Castilian Noblewoman.” Medieval Iberia. Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources. Ed. Olivia R. Constable. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2011. 427-434. Leonor_Memorias
Fazlinejad, Ahmad and Farajollah Ahmadi. “The Black Death in Iran, according to Iranian Historical Accounts from the Fourteenth through Fifteenth Centuries.” Journal of Persianate Studies 11 (2018): 56–71. fazlinejad_ahmadi_iran
Giles, Ryan D. “”No hay quien vele a Alonso”: Imitatio Mariae and the Problem of Conversion in Leonor López de Córdoba’s Memorias.” Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Eds. María Morrás, Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida, and Yonsoo Kim. Boston & Leiden: Brill, 2021. 193-211. [Optional] giles_imitatio
Dols, Michael W. The Black Death in the Middle East. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977. 84-142. [Optional] Dols_black death_plague_interpretation