Plague and the End of Antiquity 2006
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511812934.011
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Plague in Spanish Late Antiquity

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“…A contemporary chronicler records that bubonic infection devastated Spain during the first phase of the Justinianic Plague (541–544), and a recently published interpretation of a contemporary record argues that it reached Valencia presumably before 546 (53). Further textual references, including an epitaph dating to 609, document later Iberian outbreaks (56) (Fig. 1).…”
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“…A contemporary chronicler records that bubonic infection devastated Spain during the first phase of the Justinianic Plague (541–544), and a recently published interpretation of a contemporary record argues that it reached Valencia presumably before 546 (53). Further textual references, including an epitaph dating to 609, document later Iberian outbreaks (56) (Fig. 1).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1). In the Visigothic levels of the Plaça de l’Almoina in Valencia, several collective burials in an intramural cemetery were interpreted as possible plague burials (56, 57).…”
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“…Second, a series of droughts, bad harvests and famines are recorded during the last decades of the century, together with outbreaks of plague. 78 The combination of famine and plague created a deep demographic crisis in the kingdom. Three years' worth of taxes were remitted by the kings so that peasants could survive, and the palace at Toledo was abandoned.…”
Section: The Seventh-century Crisis In the Visigothic Mediterranean Tmentioning
confidence: 99%