Plague of Justinian - Wikipedia
The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely affecting the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantinople.
Plague of Justinian | Description & Facts | Britannica
plague of Justinian, plague pandemic that spread throughout the Mediterranean region and beyond beginning about 541 CE. It is named for Justinian I, who was the Byzantine emperor at that time.
Justinian's Plague (541-542 CE) - World History Encyclopedia
2014年12月26日 · During the reign of the emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE), one of the worst outbreaks of the plague took place, claiming the lives of millions of people. The plague arrived in Constantinople in 542 CE, almost a year after the disease first made its appearance in the outer provinces of the empire.
The Justinianic Plague - Origins
2020年6月12日 · The “Justinianic Plague” is the popular name for a pandemic of bubonic plague in the Late Roman or Byzantine Empire, which first appears in our sources in 541 CE. The pandemic reappeared in waves in different regions over …
The Justinianic Plague's Devastating Impact Was Likely Exaggerated
2019年12月3日 · After poring through data ranging from historical texts to pollen samples and mortuary archaeology, an international team of researchers has concluded that reports of the havoc wreaked by the...
How the gruesome Plague of Justinian shook the Byzantine Empire
Named after the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, who reigned during its first outbreak, this plague swept across the known world in the mid-6th century, leaving a trail of death and despair in its wake. But what were the origins of this plague? How did it spread so rapidly and widely?
Procopius on the Plague of Justinian: Text & Commentary
2020年4月1日 · The Plague of Justinian (541-542 CE and onwards) is the first fully documented case of bubonic plague in history. It is named for the emperor of the Byzantine Empire at the time, Justinian I (r. 527-565 CE) and recorded by his court historian Procopius (l. 500-565 CE) in his History of the Wars, Book II. 22.
Plague of Justinian | Oxford Classical Dictionary
“An evil destiny of bubo and armpit” (CIG 8628), the plague of Justinian is the name given—unfairly, since the emperor did not cause it, himself contracted it, and was long outlasted by it—to the pandemic of “bubonic plague,” infection by Yersinia pestis, that struck western Eurasia and North Africa towards the middle of the 6th ...
The Plague of Justinian: The First Recorded Global Pandemic
2021年6月17日 · Beginning in 541, the devastating Plague of Justinian tore through the Byzantine Empire – this was the start of the first of three major plague pandemics in recorded history.
Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague …
2020年12月17日 · It focuses on the case of the Justinianic Plague (ca. 541–750 c. e.), the first major recorded plague pandemic in Mediterranean history, which has increasingly been used to explain significant demographic, political, social, economic, and cultural change during late antiquity (ca. 300–800 c. e.).