Existing mortality estimates assert that the Justinianic Plague (circa 541 to 750 CE) caused
tens of millions of deaths throughout the Mediterranean world and Europe, helping to end …

This article explores how plague—as an idea—became an ahistorical independent agent of
historical change. It focuses on the case of the Justinianic Plague (ca. 541–750 ce), the first …

Recent research has increasingly argued that the Justinianic Plague was an unparallelled
demographic catastrophe which killed half the population of the Mediterranean world and …

This viewpoint is meant as a contribution to debate over the nature and significance of the
'Justinianic Plague', which struck Western Eurasia between the sixth and eighth centuries …

Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
Eight centuries before the Black Death, a pandemic of plague engulfed the lands …

In the case of Justinian's plague, the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea traced the
origins of the plague (the Yersinia pestis bacteria) to China and northeast India, via land and …

Pandemic events are surpassingly rare in human history. Yet the period we call late antiquity
could be considered the age of pandemic disease. It began and ended with the Antonine …

This article is a detailed critical review of all the major scholarly publications in the rapidly
expanding field of the Justinianic Plague published from 2000 through 2018. It updates the …

This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and
physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and …

In 1969 a groundbreaking article on the Justinianic Plague was published by Biraben-Le
Goff. Combining a short but profound medical and epidemiological presentation of the …