Kostis K P
Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, Greece.
Dynamis. 1998;18:465-78.
Histories of the plague are based on the belief that we can locate epidemics in the related sources and classify them according to present-day medical categories. This article rests upon the assumption that present day medical discourse which is based upon laboratory observation is totally incompatible with history which lacks analogous techniques in constructing its own discourse. It explores the possibilities and the limits of a history of the plague based upon the phenomenology of the disease as recorded in the sources that concern the period of the second pandemic of the plague.
鼠疫史基于这样一种信念，即我们能够在相关资料中确定流行病，并根据当今的医学类别对其进行分类。本文基于这样一种假设，即基于实验室观察的当今医学论述与在构建自身论述时缺乏类似技术的历史完全不相容。它探讨了基于鼠疫第二次大流行时期相关资料中所记录疾病现象学的鼠疫史的可能性和局限性。
