查士丁尼大瘟疫述论

On Justinianic Plague

公元 54 2 - 54 3年发生在君士坦丁堡的大瘟疫是一场史无前例的大灾难 ,它导致了拜占廷帝国乃至整个地中海世界的人口数量锐减和生产力水平的剧降。为了探寻这次大瘟疫的真相 ,有必要重新研究当时史家对大瘟疫传播情况的记载 ,对瘟疫的起源和传播路线、瘟疫的症状和传染介质、死亡人数。

The Plague of 542-543 in Constantinople was an unprecedented calamity, which brought about sharp decrease of population and productive forces in Byzantinaa Empire and the whole Mediterranean world. To search the truth of this plague, it's necessary for us to restudy contemporary historian's records , make a through inquiry on the plague's origin, dissemination route, symptoms, infectious medium, the number of death, the countermeasures of the government and it's influence.