Justinian’s Plague, Hagiography and Monasticism

This paper uses the approaches of historical social epidemiology in an examination of the spread of Justinian’s Plague to Ireland and Great Britain in 664 and 684. Changing practices in the early Christian church of antiquity led to the development of monasticism and service to the old and sick of t...

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review

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