Peste et contagion dans la Méditerranée islamique

Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean 

Nukhet Varlik



Series: Black Sea World
Hardcover: 324 pages
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press (March 31, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1942401155

This volume discusses diseases that affected human and non-human populations in areas stretching from the Red Sea and Egypt to Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Black Sea, in the early modern and modern eras. It tackles various questions of historiography and sources, tests new interdisciplinary methodologies, and asks new questions while revisiting older ones. Lastly, it contributes to Ottoman studies, the history of medicine, Mediterranean and European history, as well as global studies on the role of epidemics in history.