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Taking "Pandemic" Seriously: Making the Black Death Global
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This essay introduces the inaugural issue of The Medieval Globe, “Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death”. It suggests that the history of the pathogen Yersinia pestis, as it has now been reconstructed by molecular biology, allows for an expanded definition of the Second Plague Pandemic. Historiography of the Black Death has hitherto focused on a limited number of vector and host species, and on Western Europe and those parts of the Islamicate world touching the Mediterranean littoral. Biological considerations suggest the value of a broadened framework, one that encompasses an enlarged range of host species and draws on new archeological, genetic, and historical researches to look for the presence of plague in the premodern Indian Ocean basin and East Africa, areas where it has previously not been suspected.
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Monica H. Green argues that historians should abandon scientific agnosticism about plague and incorporate new genetics, phylogenetics, and aDNA evidence into Black Death history. She proposes a broader global narrative that includes animal hosts, the Indian Ocean basin, and sub-Saharan Africa, not just the Mediterranean and Western Europe.
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- New microbiological work has established that *Yersinia pestis* caused the Black Death; by 2011 the complete genome of *Y. pestis* from fourteenth-century remains had been sequenced, and the fourteenth-century genome fits a previously postulated branch of the phylogenetic tree.
- Cui et al. (2013) constructed a *Y. pestis* phylogeny from 133 complete genomes; it places a polytomy (“Big Bang”) at c. 1268 CE (95% CI: 1142–1339 CE), immediately before the Black Death, and places the Justinianic strain on Branch 0 between nodes 04 and 05.
- The African strain 1.ANT, found in Central and East Africa, is closely related to the London Black Death strain and is estimated by Cui et al. to have diverged from the main Branch 1 line at c. 1499 CE (95% CI: c. 1377–c. 1650), suggesting a late medieval or early modern history of plague in sub-Saharan Africa.
- The likely geographic origin of *Y. pestis* is the Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau; Green argues this requires revising plague geography to include overland routes into Western Eurasia and southern routes through the Indian Ocean basin.
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- This is a synthetic essay, not a primary genetics or archaeological study; it reviews and interprets recent aDNA, phylogenetics, historical, archaeological, and climate scholarship on plague.
- It uses the phylogenetic tree adapted from Cui et al. (2013), which analyzed 133 complete *Y. pestis* genomes, including two medieval London Black Death samples and 131 modern samples.
- It combines genetics with historical trade evidence, including Indian Ocean commerce, Cairo Genizah documents, Marco Polo on coral and musk, and archaeological evidence for Asian commensal rodents in East Africa.
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- The paper states that little genetics work has been done on sub-Saharan Africa on a scale comparable to China and Mongolia, making its African speculations “tentative in the extreme.”
- It states that there is currently no paleogenetic work from East Africa and no clear evidence of a trail of human plague from the Tibetan highlands to Indian Ocean ports in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries.
- It notes that molecular-clock dating is contested and that the “Angola” strain’s provenance is lost; more broadly, the essay is an interpretive synthesis that repeatedly frames its new geographic claims as hypotheses requiring further research.
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“To date, I know of no evidence-genetic, skeletal, or documentary-that suggests that plague reached either Madagascar or Australia prior to the Third Pandemic radiation at the end of the nine teenth century.”
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“But very little comparable genetics work has yet been done in other areas where plague is enzootic: in India, Southeast Asia, South America, and most parts of Africa.”
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“As Anna Colet and her colleagues make clear in their study of the communal graves of Tàrrega (2014, in this issue), it is sheer chance that we now have both documentary records and physical evidence for the slaughter of the Jewish community of that town in 1348.”
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“by 2011 it was announced that the complete genome of Y. pestis, assembled from fourteenth-century remains, had been sequenced (Bos et al. 2011;Little 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Green, M.
- Corresponding author
- Green, Monica
- ORCID
- Green, Monica
- Venue
- The Medieval Globe
- Publisher
- Arc Humanities Press
- Published
- 2015
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 27-61
- ISSN
- 2377-3553 (ISSN-L)
- 2377-3561
- OpenAlex
- W4238355136
- Cited by
- 95
- References
- 89
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 7
- FWCI
- 13.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- The Medieval Globe (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Ottoman and Turkish Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Medieval History and Crusades
- Keywords
- Black Death, second plague pandemic, Yersinia pestis, host species, vector species, East Africa, pandemic disease
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