Justinianic Pandemic Sourcebook | Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience

The Justinianic Pandemic of Bubonic Plague

(Yersinia pestis) 541– ca. 750 CE

The Written, Archaeological, Geospatial and Genetic Evidence

Part I: The Written Evidence for the Justinianic Pandemic in western Eurasia and Africa

A scholarly resource created under the auspices of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard

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Edited by Henry Gruber, Jake Ransohoff, and Michael McCormick, with contributions from Bryan Averbuch, Reed Johnston Morgan, John Mulhall, Nicholas Thyr and support from Claire Adams, Sophia Cho, Sonja Eliason, Jeremy Guillette, Alexander F. Medico More, Santiago Pardo Sanchez, Lisa Ransom Lubarr, Sophia Swartz, Rothsaida Sylvaince, Solenn Troadec.