{"id":25912,"date":"2020-02-19T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25912"},"modified":"2020-02-15T19:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T00:54:24","slug":"academic-lectures-on-a-modern-subject-the-black-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/academic-lectures-on-a-modern-subject-the-black-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic lectures on a modern subject: the Black Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m listening right now to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37qqwtg\">&#8220;The Black Death: The World&#8217;s Most Devastating Plague&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/facultyStaff\/profiles\/promoted\/promotions-15\/Armstrong._Dorsey.html\">Dorsey Armstrong<\/a>, a professor at Purdue. Unfortunately, due to coronavirus, this is a timely subject. Fascinating topic even without the connection to our latest events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh yes, guess where the author says the first wave of plague that hit Europe in the 14th century started? The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Death_migration#Asian_outbreak\">Hubei province of China<\/a>, in 1331.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/18\/immigration-is-the-reverse-black-death\/\">&#8220;Immigration is the Reverse Black Death?&#8221;<\/a> (Professor Armstrong concurs with other scholars that the reduction of population by 50 percent led to an enormous boost in income and standard of living for the survivors and their descendants; the U.S. is trying this in the other direction and expecting the same result!)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m listening right now to &#8220;The Black Death: The World&#8217;s Most Devastating Plague&#8221; by Dorsey Armstrong, a professor at Purdue. 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