Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World

Giovanni Colavizza

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4

Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World

Giovanni Colavizza^*

^*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

Marvel et al. [12] recently argued that the pre-modern contact world was physically and, by set inclusion, socially not small-world. Since the Black Death and similar plagues used to spread in well-defined waves, the argument goes, the underlying contact network could not have been small-world. I counter here that small-world contact networks were likely to exist in pre-modern times in a setting of the greatest importance for the outbreak of epidemics: urban environments. I show this by running epidemic diffusion simulations on the transportation network of Venice, verifying how such network becomes small-world when we account for naval transportation. Large epidemic outbreaks might not have been even possible without the catalyst of urban small-worlds.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities - 2nd IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop O4CHDDH 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Redaktører	Bojan Bozic, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Christophe Debruyne, Declan O'Sullivan
Antal sider	8
Forlag	Springer New York LLC
Publikationsdato	2016
Sider	33-40
ISBN (Trykt)	9783319462233
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4
Status	Udgivet - 2016
Udgivet eksternt	Ja
Begivenhed	2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, CHDDH 2016 - Dublin, Irland Varighed: 25 maj 2016 → 25 maj 2016

Konference

Konference	2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, CHDDH 2016
Land/Område	Irland
By	Dublin
Periode	25/05/2016 → 25/05/2016

Navn	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Vol/bind	482
ISSN	1868-4238

Bibliografisk note

Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016.

Adgang til dokumentet

10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4

Citationsformater

Colavizza, G. (2016). Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World. I B. Bozic, G. Mendel-Gleason, C. Debruyne, & D. O'Sullivan (red.), Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities - 2nd IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop O4CHDDH 2016, Revised Selected Papers (s. 33-40). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4

Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World. / Colavizza, Giovanni.
Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities - 2nd IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop O4CHDDH 2016, Revised Selected Papers. red. / Bojan Bozic; Gavin Mendel-Gleason; Christophe Debruyne; Declan O'Sullivan. Springer New York LLC, 2016. s. 33-40 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Bind 482).

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review

Colavizza, G 2016, Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World. i B Bozic, G Mendel-Gleason, C Debruyne & D O'Sullivan (red), Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities - 2nd IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop O4CHDDH 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer New York LLC, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, bind 482, s. 33-40, 2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, CHDDH 2016, Dublin, Irland, 25/05/2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4

Colavizza G. Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World. I Bozic B, Mendel-Gleason G, Debruyne C, O'Sullivan D, red., Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities - 2nd IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop O4CHDDH 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer New York LLC. 2016. s. 33-40. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Bind 482). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4

Colavizza, Giovanni. / Epidemics in Venice : On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World. Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities - 2nd IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop O4CHDDH 2016, Revised Selected Papers. red. / Bojan Bozic ; Gavin Mendel-Gleason ; Christophe Debruyne ; Declan O'Sullivan. Springer New York LLC, 2016. s. 33-40 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Bind 482).

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