Daily Life During the Plague of Justinian | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro 00:01:56 — The Outbreak and Spread of the Plague 00:09:08 — Constantinople Under Siege by Disease 00:19:17 — Suffering and Survival: Symptoms and Care for the Sick 00:32:16 — The Collapse of Daily Life and Social Order 00:45:04 — Aftermath and Long-Term Consequences 00:53:07 — Conclusion Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @asmr_historian   Support the channel on Patreon:   / asmrhistorian   Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Procopius (1914). History of the Wars (trans. H.B. Dewing) Procopius (1961). The Secret History (trans. G.A. Williamson) John of Ephesus (1996). Chronicle (plague account fragment, trans. Witold Witakowski) Evagrius Scholasticus (1846). Ecclesiastical History (trans. E. Walford) Gregory of Tours (1974). The History of the Franks (trans. Lewis Thorpe) Paul the Deacon (1907). History of the Lombards (trans. W.D. Foulke) Little, Lester K. (ed.) (2007). Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750 Harper, Kyle (2017). The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire Mordechai, Lee, et al. (2019). “The Justinianic Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(51): 25546–25554 Rosen, William (2007). Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.