On the importance of history: In response to "Black as death"

It is fitting that the economic historian who has worked most diligently over the past decade to gain a masterful understanding of the paleoscientific work behind research into historical climate and infectious diseases, Bruce Campbell, is reviewed by the scholar with arguably the strongest grasp of both the literature on the scientific aspects of plague dynamics and its history as reconstructed through the documents. Many scholars can master one side; Monica Green is one of the few that have mastered both.