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@nytimes.com: Please engage w/ historians. This account comes from ONE source, someone who never set foot out of Italy, let alone witnessed the plague outbreak at Caffa. The fiction was definitively refuted in 2021: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #BlackDeath #historiography
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Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain, Embargoes, and Yersinia pestis in the Black Sea, 1346–48 | Speculum: Vol 96, No 1
Abstract:When, how, and why did the Black Death reach Europe? Historians have relied on Gabriele
de’ Mussi’s account of Tatars catapulting plague-infested bodies into the besieged
city of Caffa on the...