My students responded okay to the Black Death material today (well this is just the first tutorial). I ended up going on an extended ramble about vectors and trade and comparing historical documents with scientific research and bioarchaeology and paleopathology lol
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If I did not end up doing early medieval history I may well have done Black Death studies. I really enjoy reading the medical history stuff, it's very interesting.
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I found it SO hard not to get sidetracked by all the medical history when I did some tutorials on it! Like yes OK we need to focus on its effects on society but did you know there's this argument that it was pneumonic and not bubonic and here's why that doesn't hold up etc etc
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(half-remembering this at best at this stage)
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there were actually three forms! Bubonic, pneumatic, and there was a gastrointestinal form too apparently. Was staying up late reading some literature on it, it's very complex.
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Oh I didn't know there was a gi one, I thought the 3rd type was septicaemic! God the argument I remember was all about the size of water droplets and the relative transmissibility of bacteria and viruses through breath, didn't seem quite so immediately significant at the time...
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I think septacaemic is related to the bubonic one, or it IS the bubonic one, if I remember what I have been reading. The GI version I think is a recent (as of 2014?) discovery.
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