7 Lars Walløe’s Human-Flea Theory of Plague Epidemology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface XIV
4. Postscript XVIII
5. Bibliography XX
6. Glossary XXII
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 The Black Death in Norway, 1348–1349 100
9. 3 The Black Death in Norway: Arrival, Spread, Mortality. Discussions with Birger Lindanger and Hallvard Bjørkvik 183
10. 4 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-49: Sources, Chronology, Spread. Discussion with Kåre Lunden 255
11. 5 The Spread of the Black Death in Norway: Revisionists, Spread Rates, Alternative Microbiological Theories and the Role of Mutation: Discussion with Kåre Lunden and Lars Walløe 307
12. 6 Walløe, Juhasz and the Sociology of Plague 344
13. 7 Lars Walløe’s Human-Flea Theory of Plague Epidemology 355
14. 8 Black Rats in the Nordic Scandinavian Countries. Discussion of Papers by Lars Walløe and Anne K. Hufthammer 395
15. 9 The Relevance of Recent Theories on the Microbiological Identity and Epidemiology of Plague for Scandinavian Plague History: In-Depth Studies of Two Danish Publications on Plague 452
16. 10 The Eight Alternative Theory on the Plague Epidemics of the Past: Discussion of Ole G. Moseng’s Composite Theory 491
17. 11 On the Theories That Plague Epidemics of the Past Were Spread by Cross-Infection by Human Lice or by Human Lice and Fleas. Discussion of Recent Works by Raoult and Drancourt, and by Walløe 593
18. 12 Problems with the Early-Phase Theory of the Transmission of Plague, Especially with Respect to Epidemic Plague 625
19. General Bibliography 666
20. List of Figures 692
21. List of Tables 693
22. Index 694