2020
DOI: 10.25162/mhj-2020-0011
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Quantitative Analysis and Plagued Assumptions: A Response to Mischa Meier

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“…This means that human decisions and human agency are central, which can determine how a pandemic strikes a particular location. As Mordechai and I have made clear, we believe historians -and historical questions -should center humans and how plague effects them above all else (MORDECHAI, EISENBERG 2020).…”
Section: A Future Of Plague Studiesmentioning
confidence: 96%
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“…This means that human decisions and human agency are central, which can determine how a pandemic strikes a particular location. As Mordechai and I have made clear, we believe historians -and historical questions -should center humans and how plague effects them above all else (MORDECHAI, EISENBERG 2020).…”
Section: A Future Of Plague Studiesmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Given my own separate research interests on the end of Rome, I was frustrated that the old focus on "why Rome fell" had returned in another form. My other projects have sought to understand not "why," but instead ask questions about the process of transformation itself, including how people living at the time used their resources to shape a distinctly post-Roman order EISENBERG 2020). What Mordechai and I sought was to provide a brief response to the narrative of catastrophe via plague.…”
Section: Responding To Naturalist Claims About the End Of Romementioning
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“…Der genetische Virentest ist dabei ein epistemologisch zentrales und anregendes, historisch aber nur bedingt relevantes Verfahren. Zum Verständnis des gesellschaftlichen Umgangs mit früheren Seuchen trägt ein molekularbiologischer Nachweis -wie übrigens alle modernen Nachweise von Krankheitserregern -nur wenig bei: dies muss hier deshalb deutlich gemacht werden, weil gelegentlich der Anspruch erhoben wird, die Geschichtsschreibung paläopathologisch und molekulargenetisch revolutionieren zu wollen (Meier, 2020;Mordechai et al, 2020). Ein Beispiel: die vor einigen Jahren erfolgte biologische Identifikation des Erregers des "Schwarzen Todes" (Spyrou et al, 2016) hilft nur höchst bedingt, die Geschichte dieser säkularen Seuche in ihrem unmittelbaren Wirken und ihren langfristigen Folgen zu verstehen (dazu Bergdolt, 1989Bergdolt, und 1994.…”
Section: Integrierte Ansätze Und Ein Neuer Blick Aufunclassified