Book announcement: Merits of the Plague

Dear Colleagues,
 
I am writing to announce the publication of the first translation in English of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's Merits of the Plague, a project which Mairaj Syed and I spent the pandemic collaborating on.
 
The book was released by Penguin Classics this month!
 
An audiobook version, narrated by the actor F
Author: 
Ruth MacKay
Reviewer: 
Kathryn Wolford

Wolford on MacKay, 'Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601'

Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 297 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49820-3

Reviewed by Kathryn Wolford (The Huntington Library) Published on H-Environment (June, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook
Reviewer: 
Kristy Wilson Bowers

Wilson Bowers on Cook and Cook, 'The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville'

Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook. The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. x + 296 pp. Illustrations. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-3404-7.

Reviewed by Kristy Wilson Bowers (Northern Illinois University) Published on H-Urban (November, 2009) Commissioned by Alexander Vari

Author: 
A. Lloyd Moote, Dorothy C. Moote
Reviewer: 
Paul Griffiths

Griffiths on Moote and Moote, 'The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year'

A. Lloyd Moote, Dorothy C. Moote. The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xxi + 357 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-7783-4.

Reviewed by Paul Griffiths (Iowa State University) Published on H-Albion (September, 2004)

Surviving Plague and Keeping Going

Special Issue: Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Special Issue: PANDEMIC, PLAGUE, PESTILENCE and the TROPICS edited by Anita Lundberg, Kalala Ngalamulume, Jean Segata, Arbaayah Ali Termizi & Chrystopher J. Spicer. 

Published in eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics (free, open access, Scopus Q2)

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