A conversation with Tina Sessa (Ohio State University: see episode 4) and Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma, author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Princeton University Press 2017) on the Byzantine reactions to pandemics. What was the threshold of social visibility for a pandemic anyway? What could the government do to help? What imaginative and social resources were activated in times of pandemic?
Source: https://byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/21-coping-with-pandemics-with-tina-sessa-and-kyle-harper/
21. Coping with pandemics, with Tina Sessa and Kyle Harper
Byzantium & Friends
Byzantium & Friends
Conversations with experts in the history of Byzantium, hosted by Anthony Kaldellis.