Epidemics and Mortality Crises in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (4): The Spatialization and Diffusion of Health and Subsistence Crises

• Grant number: 26/06149-6
• Support Opportunities: Organization Grants - Organization of Scientific Meeting
• Start date: August 26, 2026
• End date: August 28, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Cândido da Silva
• Grantee: Marcelo Cândido da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo
• Associated research grant: 21/02912-3 - A connected history of the Middle Ages: communication and circulation from the Mediterranean Sea, AP.TEM

Abstract

26/8 - 09:00-09:50 Abertura; 09:50-10:40 Respostas institucionais e mecanismos administrativos no Ocidente tardo-antigo (Carlos Augusto Machado); 11:10-12:00 Household Composition During Plague and Famine in Northeastern Iberia (Albert Reixach Sala); 14:00-14:50 A espacialização das crises frumentárias e epidêmicas na Antiguidade Tardia (Benoît Rossignol); 14:50-15:40 Crises et reprises: les rythmes différenciés de la démographie méditerranéenne (Cédric Quertier); 16:10-16:50 Funerary and Public Health Practices in Epidemic Crises: Scales, Spaces, and Patterns of Response (Dominique Castex; Sacha Kacki); 16:50-17:40 Primordial pestilence: epidemics, warfare and climatic shocks in Livy's early Rome (Rafael Scopacasa).27/8 - 09:00-09:50 Revolta e política em crises de subsistência: Florença e Nápoles (1329) (Felipe Erra); 09:50-10:40 From prehistory to the Black Death: the genetic evolution of plague revealed through ancient DNA (Gunnar Neumann); 11:10-12:00 "The poor sold themselves into slavery in order to obtain something to eat": subsistence crisis and self-sale into slavery (José Francisco Sanches Fonseca); 14:00-14:50 Circulation of Funerary Practices in the Late Antique Mediterranean (Laurianne Lequette); 14:50-15:40 Sindemic and spatialisation of the crisis in post-Roman Italy (Marcelo Candido da Silva); 16:10-16:50 The ecological background of the crises in the Lordship of Ireland (Vinicius Marino Carvalho).28/8 - 09:00-09:50 Vivre et penser la faim dans la péninsule italienne sur la longue durée (VIe-XIe siècle) (Maureen Boyard); 09:50-10:40 Représentations spatiales des crises alimentaires dans les annales et chroniques du bas Moyen Âge en Méditerranée nordoccidentale (Pere Benito i Monclús); 11:10-12:00 Conclusão (Alexis Wilkin; Carlos Augusto Machado). (AU)