A neat new EHR article by Rachel Singer on the plague in sixth-century Britain. The discussion of when/how the plague arrived is interesting enough, but the final section questioning whether Britain was the late antique 'periphery' is worth reading for Byzantinists too... doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain*Abstract:. The 2019 discovery of Yersinia pestis ancient DNA at Edix Hill in Cambridgeshire unquestionably confirms that plague was present in sixth-centurdoi.org