@Scooby17481811 It doubtless caused at least local problems, and some authors (including Procopius), are very insistent it was a catastrophe. Independent metrics though (frequency of dated inscriptions, papyri) don't seem to show much of a caesura. https
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@OttawaFencer @SeanDunn10 The latest research suggests that the Plague of Justinian wasn’t all that consequential https://t.co/OncmqjpovN
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@the_powerbroker @JC_Delmas @LesserFrederick @Theophite Lee Mordechai has written quite a bit on how the 25-65% mortality estimates relied on by Stephen Mitchell and Harper is probably too high. See for example https://t.co/qOJdYgntwp and https://t.co/6772
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RT @MerleEisenberg: This is our 5th (!!!) article on the Justinianic Plague in the last year and a half. The earlier ones are in @PastPrese…