Livestock plagues in late antiquity, with a disassembling of the bovine panzootic of <scp>A.D.</scp> 376-386
Timothy P. Newfield
The history of late-antique animal plagues requires a fresh start. Over the last 30 years, scholars have amassed copious quantities written and material evidence for major shifts in natural world experienced, or reported, as disasters late antiquity. They read textual passages more critically interwoven with physical data meticulously than researchers before them. As result, much is known now about human plagues, climatic downturns tectonic perturbations Late Roman period. Yet knowledge livestock disease remains pretty where health specialists left it 18th 19th c. There are, to be sure, histories but they are long out date, unreliable altogether poor quality.
Journal of Roman Archaeology