IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 642: Disease in the Medieval Islamicate World, II: Observing and Remembering Plague
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Nahyan Fancy, Department of History, DePauw University, Indiana Monica Green, Department of History, Arizona State University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | André Filipe Oliveira da Silva, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória' (CITCEM), Universidade do Porto |
| Paper 642-a | How the Black Death Became 'Global': Plague Focalisation and Epidemic Perceptions in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Science |
| Paper 642-b | Observing Others at the End of the World: Arabic Accounts of the Black Death (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Social History |
| Paper 642-c | Recycling Prayers in Exile: A Hebrew Plague Liturgy Moves from Mallorca to the Maghreb (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Semitic, Liturgy, Medicine |
| Abstract | New understandings of the biological history of plague have had their greatest impact in shifting our thinking about the events leading up to the unprecedented severity of the 'Great Plague' in the 1340s and attempts thereafter to make sense of a world learning to live with continuing afflictions of plague. Green (paper -a) examines the creation of the first stories of the Black Death's origins and routes, suggesting ways in which we might now decipher the phenomena these writers were witnessing. Using an untapped source, poetry, Talib (paper -b) examines how people saw the changed behaviors of their neighbors. Einbinder (paper -c) assesses how a Hebrew liturgy, first developed in Mallorca, brought continuity in Jewish mourning practices to exiled communities in the Maghreb. |