Bianuccii Raffaella, Tzortzis Stéfan, Fornaciari Gino, Signoli Michel
Laboratorio di Scienze Criminalistiche, Dipartimento di Anatomia, Farmacologia e Medicina Legale, Universith di Torino.
Med Secoli. 2010;22(1-3):273-95.
The "Black Death" and subsequent epidemics from 1346 to the early 18th century spread from the Caspian Sea all over Europe six hundred years after the outbreak of the Justinian plague (541-767 AD). Plague has been one of the most devastating infectious diseases that affected the humankind and has caused approximately 200 million human deaths historically. Here we describe the different approaches adopted in the study of several French putative plague mass burials dating to the Modern Age (16th-18th centuries). Through complementation of historical, archaeological and paleobiological data, ample knowledge of both the causes that favoured the spread of the Medieval plague in cities, towns and small villages and of the modification of the customary funerary practices in urban and rural areas due to plague are gained.
“黑死病”以及1346年至18世纪初的后续疫情，在查士丁尼瘟疫（公元541 - 767年）爆发六百年后，从里海蔓延至整个欧洲。鼠疫一直是影响人类的最具毁灭性的传染病之一，历史上已造成约2亿人死亡。在此，我们描述了对几处可追溯至近代（16至18世纪）的法国疑似鼠疫大规模墓葬进行研究时所采用的不同方法。通过历史、考古和古生物学数据的互补，我们充分了解了有利于中世纪鼠疫在城市、城镇和小村庄传播的原因，以及鼠疫导致城乡地区传统丧葬习俗发生的变化。
