@monicaMedHist Not sure how practical the advice of "ask a local humanist" is going to be (in our case - how many historian experts do I need to contact to cover a collection of 700 years of plague across Eurasia?). I am sort of fine in learning by rebutta
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@DrCRollinger Joris Roosen and Daniel R. Curtis, "Dangers of Noncritical Use of Historical Plague Data," https://t.co/Od9E4GH7yF. I'll let you get caught up on the literature in the field now.
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@drkahaynes Tip #1 from historian of science. Use whatever databases (PubMed, SciVerse, etc.) are at your disposal. But then question them. What do they exclude? Historians have been trying to get across this basic truth about how data gets gathered in the
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@Byzanzforscher @SarahEBond @kgeographer @WalterScheidel @eltonteb @RyanMHorne ... the centuries of plague histories that keep parroting the same data & go back to original sources. The project just won the @CARMENmedieval Prize. In the meantime, on th