Controlling grain prices and de-controlling bubonic plague

Silver, Morris

doi:10.1016/s0140-1750(82)91780-8

Journal of Social and Biological Structures

1982

DOI: 10.1016/s0140-1750(82)91780-8

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Controlling grain prices and de-controlling bubonic plague

Morris Silver¹

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Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity

Newfield¹

2016

Late Antiq. Archaeol.

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What influence did climate have on disease in Late Antiquity? Natural archives of pre-instrumental temperature indicate significant summer cooling throughout the period. The coolest stretch spanned the 6th and 7th c., and corresponds startlingly to the appearance of the Justinianic Plague in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on principles from landscape epidemiology, this paper marries textual evidence for disease with palaeoclimatic data, in order to understand how gradual and dramatic climatic change, the 535–50 downturn especially, may have altered the pathogenic burden carried in Late Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to the Justinianic Plague, but the potential impacts of a changing climate on malaria and non-yersinial, non-plague, epidemics are not overlooked.

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Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity

Newfield¹

2016

Late Antiq. Archaeol.

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The Plague under Commodus as an Unintended Consequence of Roman Grain Market Regulation

Silver¹

2012

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This paper begins with a review of Roman grain market policies. It is argued that policies such as forced sales and maximum prices made urban consumers hesitant to rely on the market for secure access to grain. Consequently, consumers hoarded grain in their homes. The hoarded grain formed a volatile fuel ready to be ignited by the arrival of the bubonic plague bacillus. This scenario fits events in the city of Rome under Commodus. Attested grain market interventions were followed by a severe epidemic, arguably bubonic plague, which decimated the city's population.

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Controlling grain prices and de-controlling bubonic plague

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Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity

Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity

The Plague under Commodus as an Unintended Consequence of Roman Grain Market Regulation

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