| KARASARIDIS, Anestis. Did Pandemics foster the Rise of Christianity? A Comparative Modelling of the Antonine and Cyprianic Plagues in Rome and Achaea. In Moving Byzantium lecture series, Department of Byzantine Research of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2021. 2021. |
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@misc{1813521,
author = {Karasaridis, Anestis},
booktitle = {Moving Byzantium lecture series, Department of Byzantine Research of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2021},
keywords = {Antonine Plague; Plague of Cyprian; Simulation; Mathematical Model; Computational Historiography; Epidemiology; Early Christianity; Demography of the Roman Empire},
language = {eng},
title = {Did Pandemics foster the Rise of Christianity? A Comparative Modelling of the Antonine and Cyprianic Plagues in Rome and Achaea},
year = {2021}
}
TY - SLIDE
ID - 1813521
AU - Karasaridis, Anestis
PY - 2021
TI - Did Pandemics foster the Rise of Christianity? A Comparative Modelling of the Antonine and Cyprianic Plagues in Rome and Achaea
KW - Antonine Plague
KW - Plague of Cyprian
KW - Simulation
KW - Mathematical Model
KW - Computational Historiography
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Early Christianity
KW - Demography of the Roman Empire
N2 - Several decades ago, Rodney Stark and William H. McNeill argued there was a causal link between pandemics in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE and the growth of Christian population. They hypothesized that the two pandemics, the Antonine Plague and the Plague of Cyprian, have caused lower damage to the Christian population, setting the conditions for its unprecedented growth in the following centuries. This interpretation of the growth of Christian population, as well as the hypothesized impact of the two pandemics were however questioned by other scholars. A research direction that might advance the current discussion surrounding the impact of the Antonine and Cyprianic Plagues on the population of the Roman Empire is to inspect the currently available sources by novel methods and assess whether Stark and McNeill’s interpretation is realistic at all. Researchers in the humanities started recently employing mathematical and computational methods on other pandemics in Antiquity with fruitful results, indicating this direction might provide interesting insights. Despite there is no molecular evidence of the pathogens that have caused the Antonine and Cyprianic Plagues, literary and archaeological sources indicate the features of the pathogens that might have caused the pandemics and their impact on Roman society. The aim of this paper is to provide an example of how to create compartmental models of the Antonine and Cyprianic Plagues to identify the most plausible causal agent of each of them.
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KARASARIDIS, Anestis. Did Pandemics foster the Rise of Christianity? A Comparative Modelling of the Antonine and Cyprianic Plagues in Rome and Achaea. In \textit{Moving Byzantium lecture series, Department of Byzantine Research of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2021}. 2021.
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