This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease

Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions,

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth

This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean Wo

"Vermin are not only pestering; they shape the way people look at each other and are a way that some people get to feel superior to others"--